the effect of steel plate thickness on the repair effectiveness of rc beam is presented in this paper. a total of four beams were tested, one beam repaired by cfrp with a thickness of 1.2 mm and used as a control beam, and three beams repaired by a steel plate. steel plates with a thickness of 2 mm, 3 mm, and 4 mm were used in repairing the beams. the maximum load-carrying capacity, deflection ...

Steel corrosion leads to the deterioration of bond between concrete and steel bars. The serviceability and ultimate strength of concrete elements within RC structures are hence affected. Many researchers have studied the bond behavior of corroded steel bars. However, very few studies have investigated the effects of confinements on the degradation of bond strength. The present paper proposed a ...

A recent advance in corrosion-resistance technology overcomes the problem of steel corrosion in CO2enriched environments. At an inhibitor concentration of 10 M, the inhibition efficiency exceeded 98% where the steel corrosion rate is decreased by a factor of at least 100.

In the paper we rewiev the experience with the steel from Cold Rolling Mill Kraluv Dvur near Prague, where the steel for barrel module 0 prototype of the TILECAL calorimeter was fabricated. The measurements of the tolerances, mechanical properties and the chemical composition are presented.

The justification and economics of the operational animal damage control program in California as conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are discussed. Emphasis is given to the necessity for use of the steel trap. Nearly 83 percent of the depredators are taken by trapping. Annual agricultural losses due to predation were estimated at $4.7 million in California for Fiscal Year 1975. The...

Frettingwear between a hemisphere and a flat plate is investigated experimentally and the effect of laser polishing is studied. The energy dissipated between the hemisphere and the flat plate is determined as eceived in revised form 23 April 2010 ccepted 28 April 2010 vailable online 13 May 2010 eywords: retting a function of operating conditions such as frequency and normal load and material p...

According to the direct homogenization theory of inhomogeneous material, a single medium homogenization constitutive model of the confined concrete in the steel box-concrete combined member has been established, and model parameters have been determined by the measured data of the bending test. By analyzing the theoretical ultimate strength and overall process curve, the results obtained is con...

This paper examines a few methods used in grounding analysis and illustrates the advantages, limitations, and the applicability of these methods. Computation results using these methods are presented and compared. The various cases modeled in this paper include grounding networks of different sizes, grounding networks with buried metallic structures such as steel pipes, and high frequency cases...

This study sums up the authors recent works on steel Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation achieved between 2000 and 2008. The main related items are the establishment of a first-order correlation between the thermal diffusivity and the Vickers hardness HV as a guide to set an NDT protocol to investigate steel strengthened surface performance. A special attention is confined toward carburized ...