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12 Oct 2010: It has been concluded that the Stepped Isothermal Method can be used to produce test results in reasonable time scales. ... With terminations at both ends of a rope in a tension test, the rope normally breaks away from the termination.

3 May 2010: c mob/cu. Figure 1 Normalisation of shear stress-strain curves from cyclic torsional tests on clays. ... accounted for if the data of compression and extension tests were separately available.

27 Mar 2010: Figure 14. Variation in tendon force during ultimate load test. After the beam test, portions of both tendons were subjected to direct tension tests; both achieved strengths of 625 kN, which ... The test further shows that the use of FRP to make

26 Mar 2010: But bent pultrusions will never be economic. 4.4 Internal confinement for compression. ... 31] Nelson, W., Accelerating Testing: Statistical Models, Test Data and Data Analysis, 1st edition,.

26 Mar 2010: FIBRE REINFORCED POLYMERS – STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES,. OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS. Chris BURGOYNE Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK Keywords: economics, strengths, weakness, applications, design. ... So once again we are being forced

19 Mar 2010: the design life is to apply extrapolation techniques to short-. term test data. ... 0.54 fu after 50 years. Yamaguchi et al.13 carried out creep tests.

4 Aug 2010: 35]. Morelong term corrosion tests are needed to establish relationshipsbetween corrosion rates and environmental properties. ... 2] I. Balafas, 2003. Fibre-reinforced-polymers vs steel in concrete bridges: structuraldesign and economic viability.

3 Nov 2010: These tests have included a series of half-scale beam-and-slab bridge tests funded by EPSRC and the Highways Agency and 20 scale models of concrete bridges.

16 Feb 2010: Laboratory single and simultaneous injection tests were performed on kaolin clay to investigate the effect of overconsolidation ratio, grout material properties (grout viscosity and water cement ratio), grout injection volume, radial ... The effect of

24 Feb 2010: desiccation (due to groundwater fluctuation and weathering action), mix proportion of ingredients, and scale (or size) of test section. ... A conceptual framework for constitutive modelling is proposed based on the triaxial test results.

3 Feb 2010: Dynamic centrifuge tests have been conducted on small-scale tunnel models for this purpose. ... These deformations were measured using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique for the first time in a dynamic centrifuge test involving earthquakes.

27 Mar 2010: These bond tests also neglect the effects from the presence of steel bars. ... This is typical of the behaviour that is reported from conventional bond tests.

14 Dec 2010: Centrifuge modelling was mainly used for this research. Different pile installation methods were carried out in centrifuge tests. ... The earthquake tests reveal significant differences in the performance of pile groups compared with pseudo-static cyclic

22 Jun 2010: A model was constructed and tested in a 4 L column (cylindrical) reactor, using the MB test to characterise the reactor performance and operating conditions.

14 Oct 2010: Also, novel binders such as magnesia cement, zeolite cement and slag-magnesia blend were also studied to test their applicability in ground improvement.

26 Mar 2010: Tensile, SIM and SSM tests were conducted using the same experimental set-up (Fig. ... in deriving rupture times which by conventional creep tests would have required months or years.

26 Mar 2010: 5 COMPARISONS WITH TESTS: PLATE END DEBONDING 5.1 Plate end interface crack induced debonding. ... The analysis of other test data also shows similar results validating the present analysis [4].

26 Mar 2010: The exact σ -w relations of a given concrete can only be known from direct uniaxial tensile tests. ... 11] Bažant, Z.P., “Choice of Standard Fracture Test for Concrete and Its Statistical Evaluation”, International Journal of Fracture, 118, 2002,

26 Mar 2010: There have been many studies where researchers have conducted tests on confined concrete, to which curves have been fitted, but very little work that goes back to the fundamental properties of ... Space does not permit here the comparisons that have been

19 Mar 2010: To test for case-control differences between groups, distributions were firsttested for normality, and generally a Wilcoxon test wasused. ... To test forhip fracture case-control differences, repeated-measuresMANOVA was used with and without age

26 Mar 2010: A test plan of all creep tests carried out is given in Table 1. ... Some creep tests, for example test CCTK-70-01 (Fig. 6), had to be discarded, because slip events were observed.

22 Mar 2010: The decision to make the bridge continuous was a late amendment to the design, and apparently taken on economic grounds since it allowed the new cables to pass from one

22 Mar 2010: lowest upper bound. He has conducted many tests to. show that, despite being an upper bound, his predic-. ... material tests were used. The program converged very slowly to a solution,.

26 Mar 2010: Tests had to be carried out at various temperatures levels and for that reason the test apparatus included a Thermo center oven (Fig. ... 160oC. Each test was repeated three times, giving a total of 72 tests.

27 Mar 2010: Therefore long-term creep of ropes is a subject of interest. However, few long-term creep tests have been performed in literature, as this kind of test is costly. ... temperature (the initial strain value is determined by performing tensile tests for

30 Mar 2010: 16]. Kevlar 49 and Technora yarns, available in reel forms, were used for all tests. ... Stress-limits proposed by various researchers. CREEP TESTS ON ARAMID FIBRES. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION.

22 Mar 2010: Test procedures. Yarns tested. All the tests described here were carried out on 1000 fila-. ... test results to be compared. A preliminary series of tests was performed on a tensile.

26 Mar 2010: Test beam inside scanner. • Test frame must be non-magnetic. • ... RF probe. Loading jacks. Reaction frame. Watertank. Beam. Forming composite structure image Test procedure• Water tank filled• Beam loaded by external hydraulic.

26 Mar 2010: The reinforcement used in the cylinder tests was made from Kevlar 49 aramid yarns [15]. ... The test frame was made from nylon bars and polycarbonate sheet, with twisted aramid yarns as the tension elements.

22 Mar 2010: the question remains about repeatability. To test this, tests. Table 4 Creep gradient values at each temperature step of SIM70-01-01. ... times of SIM tests at 70 and 50% ABL, respectively. Figure 21 shows stress-rupture test data obtained from.

22 Mar 2010: Test No. No. of Tests Temperature. (-C). Time Duration. (h). TTSP70-01 2 25 16. ... TTSP70-05 2 100 8. Table II Testing procedure for70% ABL. Test No.

22 Mar 2010: The Reinhardt 1985 model gives a range of values quoted inTable 1 to be expected from tests but does not give a method forpredicting the exact value without doing a test. ... Struct., 184, 287–290. RILEM Committee 89-FMT. 1991. Fracture mechanics test