We also welcome contributions by Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) in these areas.
Eduardo Pedrosa, the Singapore-based secretary-general of PECC, calls it a tectonic shift in American competitiveness.
The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), the South Pacific Forum (SPF), and the secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEANN) maintain observer status.
In addition, the fracture energy of hybrid FRCCs decreased as compared with PVACC and PECC.
These results can be explained by the difference of the fracture energy between PECC and SCC.
Compared with the PVACC and PECC panels, the hybrid FRCC panels exhibited larger spall diameters.
PECC has fracture energy about 3 times greater than that of SCC, whereas PVACC has fracture energy about 1.5 times greater than that of SCC.
For FRCCs, the fracture energy, which was calculated by the area below the load CMOD curve, was higher in PVACC and PECC compared to SCC.
This is ascribed to the higher post-crack stress and residual stress of PVACC and PECC, given that fracture energy greatly depends on the stress-sustaining capacity along with the maximum flexural stress.
Two kinds of micro synthetic fibers, i.e., polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber and polyethylene (PE) fiber, were used in the preparation of the PVA fiber-reinforced cementitious composite (PVACC) and the PE fiber-reinforced cementitious composite (PECC), respectively.
