This paper investigates the mechanical behaviour of FRC made with both Industrial and Recycled Steel Fibres recovered from waste tyres. Specimens of various mixtures, characterised by the same volume fraction of fibres, ...

Fibre Reinforced Concrete performance is evaluated in terms of bending residual stresses. Although fibre concrete is suitable for structures exposed to impacts and other extreme loads, there is not much information about ...

A nonlinear finite element model was developed to simulate the nonlinear response of three-leaf masonry specimens, which were subjected to laboratory tests with the aim of investigating the mechanical behaviour of multiple-leaf ...

This paper proposes a model aimed at simulating the bond behaviour of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) laminates glued to concrete substrates and exposed to high temperature. Based on a previous model already formulated by ...

The main purpose of this paper is to develop a reliable method based on a three-dimensional (3D) finite-element (FE) model to simulate the constitutive behaviour of reinforced concrete structures strengthened with ...

Aiming to correct one of the predominant defects on brazilian pavements, the fatigue cracking, the National Dimensioning Method was developed, extinguishing the empirical approach applied to highways so far. The new method ...

The implicit formulation of the boundary element method is applied to bidimensional problems of material failure involving, sequentially, inelastic dissipation with softening in continuous media, bifurcation and transition ...

An experimental and numerical study on low-velocity impact responses on [Ti/0/90]s hybrid titanium composite laminates (HTCLs) is presented. Different energy levels from 10 to 40 J are investigated using a drop-weight ...

Summary In this work the structural dependence of plastic rotation capacity in RC beams is evaluated using the Finite Element Method. The objective is to achieve a better understanding of the non-linear behavior of reinforced ...