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Author International Conference on High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials 2014

Title High performance and optimum design of structures and materials / editors, W.P. de Wilde, S. Hernández, C.A. Brebbia
Published Southampton ; Boston : WIT Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (705 pages)
Series WIT Transactions on The Built Environment
WIT transactions on the built environment.
Contents Cover; High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Synergy between structural and architectural engineering: the point of view of the structural engineer; Section 1: Material characterisation; Microstructural and mechanical characterization of magnesium based alloy MA14 (ZK60 A): evolution under deformation and heat treatment; Identification of material constitutive law constants using machining tests: a response surface methodology based approach
Tracking heat-affected zone cracking susceptibility in standard and modified heat treated IN 738 superalloy weldsThe properties of innovated mortars utilizing secondary raw material; Effect of specimen size on cancellous bone microstructural parameters; Prediction of roll separating force in a roll pass design of micro-alloyed steel rods; Physicochemical characterization of modified multicomponent binder mortar in relation to calcium hydroxide leaching; Selection of conductive yarns for knitting an electrical heating element
Physicochemical characterization of polymer composite cement systemsSection 2: Experiments and numerical analysis; Numerical experiments for inverse analysis of material properties and size in functionally graded materials using the Artificial Bee Colony algorithm; Dynamic responses of a steel composite bridge subjected to a moving high speed train load in comparison with a PSC box girder bridge; Process development for 3D laser lithography; Effect of mesostructure on strain rate dependent behaviour in high strength steel sheets
The mitigation of the progressive collapse of a 9-storey structure incorporating United States Department of Defence guidelinesSection 3: Composite materials and structures; The study of a CVT belt using the composite material of carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin; The effect of the amount of process control agent on the properties of Cu25W composite powder; The high temperature resistance of a para-aramid fibre-reinforced concrete composite; Reinforcing concrete shells with cement composite stay-in-place formwork: numerical analysis of a case study
Crashworthiness response of honeycomb metallic-GFRP energy absorption devicesSection 4: Green composites (Special session organised by H. Takagi & T. Katayama); Heat transfer analyses of natural fibre composites; Development of the fabrication process of carbon nanotube reinforced polylactide (PLA) nanofiber and evaluation of its mechanical properties; Proximity heating of CFRTP molding dies by using high-frequency direct current; Section 5: Composites for automotive applications (Special session organised by K. Takemura & K. Tanaka)
Summary This proceedings volume is the first from a new edition of the High Performance Design of Structures and Materials and the Optimum Design of Structures conferences, which follows the success of a number of meetings that originated in 1989. This book will be of interest to those in any engineering field including civil engineering and architecture
Notes FEM analysis of the temperature distribution of CFRTP pipe mold with direct resistance heating
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Subject Building materials -- Congresses
Mechanical engineering -- Congresses
Smart materials -- Congresses
Structural engineering -- Congresses
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil -- General.
Building materials
Mechanical engineering
Smart materials
Structural engineering
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Wilde, W. P. de (Willy Patrick), 1946- editor.
Hernández, S. (Santiago), 1951- editor.
Brebbia, C. A., editor.
ISBN 9781845647759
1845647750