If the homeowner has access to the framing members of the roof via an attic, then reinforcement of load-bearing members is possible, and a heavier, more diverse green roof can be achieved.
More expensive carbon fiber composites are used in exceptional circumstances, usually when high stiffness and fatigue endurance are required for the reinforcement of highly loaded bridge sections.
The walls were well-instrumented in order to monitor the values of the reinforcement load, toe load, horizontal facing displacement, horizontal stress at the back of the block facing and vertical displacement on the top of the walls.
The results demonstrated that external post-tensioning significantly decreased the stresses in the internal reinforcement at all stages of loading, and hence extended the fatigue life of the strengthened beams.
The effects of volume percentage of reinforcement, particle size of reinforcement, applied load, sliding speed and hardness of counter part materials on dry sliding wear behaviour of AA7075 aluminium/SiCp have been analysed in detail.
Due to the directions of loading and reinforcement, the stress state is mostly anisotropic.
Bond of FRP reinforcement is expected to be more sensitive to temperature and rate of loading than conventional steel reinforcement.
The variability in the estimate of strength reduction due to combined installation damage and creep is demonstrated to be less than the variability in the estimates of reinforcement load even for the case of a load model judged to give relatively accurate load predictions.
The accurate estimation of reinforcement tensile loads is crucial for the evaluation of the internal stabilities of geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) structures.
The remarkable mechanical performance of biological materials such as bone, nacre, and spider silk stems from their staggered microstructure in which stiff and strong reinforcements are elongated in the direction of loading, separated by softer interfaces, and shifted relative to each other.
