The use of earth mortar and living plants has proved a successful approach to conserving ruined earthmortared masonry in damp and unpredictable climates. On the case stud [...]

This work deals with the effect of the nanosilica addition on the performance of aerial lime mortars. Several lime mortars were prepared and modified upon the addition of [...]

Gypsum was widely used in the production of composite materials in Cyprus in the past, due to its abundance on the island. However, the study of local historic gypsum mor [...]

In the centre and south of Portugal construction of buildings with earth was frequent until the mid-20th Century. Rammed earth was the most common type of construction in [...]

Failure of a high ductile specimen usually precedes a decrease of the loading force (material softening) under the condition of displacement control in the monotonic load [...]

This paper presents an experimental investigation on mechanical properties and durability of fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) incorporating polypropylene (PP) fibres expos [...]

Axisymmetric circular plates subjected to stationary and transient dynamic loads are analyzed in the presented paper. Effect of viscous damping is also considered. Dynami [...]

The creation of direct kinematic model is relatively simply in contrast with creation of analytic inverse model. With using of approximating methods is inverse modelling [...]

Friction influence in analysis of a single degree of freedom oscillatory system (SDOF) is either neglected or accounted for by analytical methods, assuming steady state h [...]