The present paper is concerned with the evaluation of effective properties and macroscopic tensile strengths of unidirectional fibrous composites made of basal fibers bon [...]

Concrete and other cementitious materials are undoubtedly the most important and widely used construction material nowadays. However, there exist other building materials [...]

The present paper is devoted to the determination of effective properties of wood needed in the macroscopic description of heat and moisture transport in the framework of [...]

In this paper the implementation of a Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller is presented to drive the loading of structures within the framework of explicit s [...]

Strain Hardening Cement-based Composite (SHCC) is a type of High Performance Concrete (HPC) that was developed to overcome the brittleness of conventional concrete. Even [...]

This paper deals with the implementation of periodic boundary conditions in homogenization to determine effective elastic properties of arbitrary composite systems assumi [...]

Fiber reinforced cement-based composites is a large group of composites with variety of properties. The purpose of adding fibers is to overcome the brittleness of the con [...]

An efficient approach to the evaluation of effective thermal conductivity of carbon-carbon (C/C) plain weave textile composites using the Mori-Tanaka (MT) method is prese [...]

Evaluation of effective or macroscopic coefficients of thermal conductivity under coupled heat and moisture transfer is presented. The paper first gives a detailed summ [...]

Strain Hardening Cement-based Composite (SHCC) is a type of High Performance Concrete that was developed to overcome the brittleness of conventional concrete. The primary [...]