The types of lateral restraint (i.e. cross-bracings or ties) provided for the slabs, reinforcing configuration and steel fibre dosage (i.e. 0.25% and 0.5%) were the main variables in this study.
The effects of different reinforcing grid configurations on critical loads were then examined and compared to those of different skin-reinforcing designs using Finite Element Analysis FEAA) simulations.
If the answers to all three are "yes," companies can conclude that the players' behaviors have locked into a self-reinforcing configuration and that no player will switch to another product on its own.
This paper aims, on the one hand, to analyse the most important applications of FRC in tunnel linings worldwide and, on the other hand, presents a design methodology which enables the reinforcement configuration of fibre reinforced concrete in precast segments to be optimised.
Three walls were reinforced with different configurations of Geogrid material and the last three were reinforced with different configurations of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) reinforcement.
All methods are implemented in an optimum performance-based design framework to obtain the lower-bound designs for two regular and two irregular reinforced concrete building configurations.
Considering two different kinds of fiber-reinforced configurations, i.e. uniformly distributed (UD) and functionally graded (FG) reinforcements, the buckling solutions of perfect and imperfect PFRC cylindrical shells are obtained by applying separation of variables and Galerkin's method.
Mesh sensitivity and parametric studies are also performed to shed light on the influence of finite element discretization, reinforcing steel configuration, and in-plan aspect ratio on uncertainty propagation in the ultimate load-bearing capacity.
This study experimentally investigated the effects of the reinforcing bar configuration on the shrinkage behavior of high-performance concrete (HPC), including the restrained shrinkage strain, shrinkage gradient, restrained stress, and cracking potential.
Three slabs of each reinforcement configuration were produced and tested: conventionally reinforced slabs, steel fibre reinforced slabs and a combination of both reinforcement types.
While the electrospun nanofibers provide bridging through-the-thickness reinforcement, the use of the nanoparticles influences the thermo-physical properties and provides an effective means from commercially available nanolevel material configurations to form reinforced polymer nanocomposites.
