... PERFORMANCE OF FRP- STRENGTHENED BEAMS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURES ZHOU YUQIAN (B.Eng., WHUT) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING ... behavior of FRP- strengthened members under elevated temperatures This research presents test results regarding the structural behavior of FRPstrengthened RC beams...
... laboratory investigation of the interfacial shear stress concentration at the CFRP cut-off regions as well as the failure mode of CFRP -strengthened beams as a function of beam size and FRP thickness 2) ... Founded 1905 EFFECT OF BEAM SIZE AND FRP THICKNESS ON INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRESS CONCENTRATION AND FAILURE MODE IN FRP- STRENGT...
... Review of Work 213 6.2 Summary of Findings 215 6.2.1 Long- term Behavior of FRP- Strengthened RC Beams under Sustained Loading 215 6.2.2 Effect of Cyclic Loading on Long- Term Behavior of FRP- Strengthened ... Effect of tropical weathering on long- term deflection, crack width, and residual strength of GFRP -strengthened RC beams under sustained loadi...
... Bureau of Reclamation; Design of gravity dams: Design Manual for Concrete Gravity Dams; Denver, Colorado; 1976 R A MIR and C A TAYLOR An investigation in to base sliding response of rigid gravity dams ... downstream sliding of rigid concrete gravity dams subjected earthquake loads The main menu of DAS program is showed in figure Figure The main menu o...
... under ambient [CO ] In a previous experiment on P pinaster [ 12] , the stimulation of CO assimilation rate under elevated [CO ] was maintained along a drying cycle, but leaf carbohydrate concentrations ... induce an accumulation in soluble carbohydrates even though stomatal conductance and CO assimilation rate are markedly lowered? 2) Will the stimulation of CO as...
... cultured stocks of salmonids by restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) in mtDNA demonstrated the existence of lower variation in cultured stocks For example, Ontario aquaculture stocks of ... than that of nuclear genes In conclusion, the mtDNA control region did not give any indication of selection acting on sea bass during the acclimation t...
... semen from bulls of the NRF Figure every 5th year with 1985 (■)2005 percentages of breed (ᮀ) inseminations of first inseminations to and Total number of first inseminations (■) and percentages of ... in 1985 to 73.4% in 2002 (p < 0.001) and then declined to 72.7% in 2005 RR0-3 has increased from 6% in 1985 to 12% in 2005 (p < 0.001) The seasonal variation in...
... and brine depth) The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of brine depth on the productivity and efficiency of solar still under laboratory conditions Table shows a summary of some ... summary of some of the studies cited in the literature that examined the effect of brine depth on productivity It can be seen from the table...
... Stability of the elastoplastic thin round cylindrical shells subjected to 25 The arc-length of the strain trajectory is calculated by the formula √ 3p ˙ ds ˙ = √ ... Table The results basing on the elasto-plastic theory Stability of the elastoplastic thin round cylindrical shells subjected to 29 Numerical results and discussion Example 1: Le...
... recruitment and retention programs of the armed forces Accurate data on the relationship between performance on the one hand and ability, experience, and training on the other would allow military officials ... years of service and military grade, (2) the effect of additional training on performance, and (3) the role of AFQT score as a proxy f...
... IAEA-TECDOC-1533 Improving the Reproductive Management of Dairy Cattle Subjected to Artificial Insemination Publication prepared under the framework of an RCA project with the technical support of the Joint ... publisher, the IAEA, as to the legal status of such countries or territories, of their authorities and institutions or of the delimitation...
... was evaluated against the market to test the non-causal relationship between sustainability and risk and reward as the variables of interest Sustainability was considered as a manifestation of ... Sustainability Reporting Impact on Financial Performance 25 the engagement of an external auditor to attest to the fact that the financial statements fair...
... Electrochemical performance of NixCo1−xMoO4 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) nanowire anodes for lithium-ion batteries Kyung-Soo Park1, Seung-Deok Seo1, Hyun-Woo Shim1, and Dong-Wan Kim*1 Department of Materials ... fabrication of NixCo1−xMoO4 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) nanowire electrodes by a hydrothermal method, followed by thermal post-annealing We also demonstrate the superior electroch...
... throughput when the accuracy increases Fairness of TCP NCE Fairness is a measure of the relative throughput performance of a set of TCP flows of the same type To investigate the fairness performance, 10 ... number of fast retransmissions TCP NCE can limit the retransmission by using the information from the network Accuracy of TCP NCE Accuracy is a...
... enable the calculation of the cost of a path, based on the LQI values of all links Therefore, we chose to evaluate the performance of these LQI-based routing metrics for NST-AODV Note that the PATH-DR ... data transmission rate for each node to allow for a link quality estimation [5] 4.5 MultiHopLQI One of the first attempts at a link quality estimat...