Sentence examples for slab elements from inspiring English sources

It is first developed at ambient temperature and validated using a series of experiments on isolated slab elements.

A large test rig has been constructed based on three 2.5 m long full-scale floating track slab elements.

Design process in agreement with EC3 and EC4 covers with complexity all the relevant bearing capacity and structural stiffness questions for beams and also for supported slab elements.

Two 12 m long rails are attached to the slab elements with different fastener systems that can provide a wide range of stiffness values.

The model is based on the premise that floor collapse is resisted through the development of membrane action in the slab elements and catenary forces in the steel beams.

For simplicity, in the present work, each object is assumed as made of a finite number of flat-surface slab elements.

Based on a sandwich model, the slab element is subdivided into two cover elements and a core element.

Preliminary tests on the employed materials and a 3-point load test on the slab element are presented, together with indications on its manufacturing process.

The plane displacement interpolation functions of a quadrilateral isoparametric element with drilling degrees of freedom are employed to describe the membrane effects and the bending effects of the slab element are represented by the rotation functions of the slab element derived from Timoshenko's composite beam functions.

In this paper, a simple shear-flexible rectangular layered FRP-reinforced concrete slab element is developed based on Mindlin Reissner plate theory and Timoshenko's composite beam functions for nonlinear finite element analysis of FRP-reinforced concrete slabs.

Based on a sandwich model, the slab element is subdivided into two cover elements and a core element, respectively; while the covers are subjected to in-plane forces only, the core has to resist to the transverse shear forces.