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  Sustainability-oriented model to decide on concrete pipeline reinforcement 

  Josa i Culleré, Irene; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la; Casanovas Rubio, Maria del Mar; Armengou Orús, Jaume; Aguado de Cea, Antonio (2021-03)
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  The design of sustainable sewerage infrastructure is fundamental for achieving long-term sustainability goals. Piping systems are essential components in the water supply chain and in waste disposal systems worldwide. Among ...
• Comparison of different low-cost sensors for structural health monitoring 

  Komarizadehasl, Seyedmilad; Turmo Coderque, José; Mobaraki, Behnam; Lozano Galant, José Antonio (CRC Press, 2020)
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  Recently, the need for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and inspection is growing as a result of the increasing age of the structural stock worldwide. SHM includes bringing into use a sensor or an array of sensors into ...
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  Response of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Wind 15MW WindCrete and Activefloat floating wind turbines to wind and second-order waves 

  Mahfouz, Mohammad Youssef; Molins i Borrell, Climent; Trubat Casal, Pau; Hernández Blanco, Sergio; Vigara, Fernando; Pegalajar Jurado, Antonio; Bredmose, Henrik; Salari, Mohammad (Copernicus Office, 2021-05)
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  The EU Horizon 2020 project COREWIND (COst REduction and increase performance of floating WIND technology) has developed two floating platforms for the new International Energy Agency (IEA) Wind 15MW reference wind turbine. ...
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  Modeling serviceability performance and ultimate capacity of corroded reinforced and prestressed concrete structures 

  Marí Bernat, Antonio Ricardo; Bairán García, Jesús Miguel; Oller Ibars, Eva; Duarte Gómez, Noemí (Wiley, 2021-06)
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  Corrosion reduces the area of reinforcement steel, affects its mechanical properties, the bond properties, and produces concrete cracking. Thus, reduction of the bearing capacity and stiffness, increments of deflections ...
• Embedded distributed optical fiber sensors for health monitoring of concrete bridges 

  Bado, Mattia Francesco; Casas Rius, Joan Ramon; Kaklauskas, Gintaris (CRC Press, 2021)
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  The idea behind Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the identification of early structural malfunctions, which, in the case of concrete bridges, is mainly shown as deformation and cracking and the consequent feedback on ...
• Analysis using modal information in SSI by dynamic observability method 

  Peng, Tian; Casas Rius, Joan Ramon; Turmo Coderque, José (CRC Press, 2021)
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  Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has become a powerful tool to help decision making for management of structures along their service life. Estimation of parameters from dynamic response is more appealing than doing it ...
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  Effects of unidirectional tensile stresses on punching shear strength of RC slabs 

  Fernández Sánchez, Pablo Gonzalo; Marí Bernat, Antonio Ricardo; Oller Ibars, Eva; Domingo Tarancón, Magí (Féderation Internationale du Béton (fib), 2020)
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  RC slabs can be subjected to transverse loads and in-plane tensile forces simultaneously, as it occurs in top slabs of continuous box girder bridges at intermediate supports, or in floor slabs supported on columns and ...
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  Planning low-error SHM strategy by constrained observability method 

  Peng, Tian; Nogal, María; Casas Rius, Joan Ramon; Turmo Coderque, José (2021-07)
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  Structural identification using dynamical parameters (such as the natural vibration frequencies and mode shapes) is an important issue, especially in bridges or high-rise buildings. However, incorrect decisions could happen ...
• Alternative secondary raw materials for road construction based on pulp and paper industry reject: paperChain project 

  Baloochi, Hani; Aponte Hernández, Diego Fernando; Barra Bizinotto, Marilda; Martínez Reguero, Adriana Haydée; Miró Recasens, José Rodrigo; Cepriá, Juan José; Orejana Gonzalez, Roberto; Oleaga, Asier (2020-01)
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  Europe is the second world producer of pulp and paper, representing 23% of world production and an annual turnover of €180 billion (1.26% of the European GDP). [1]. According to the Confederation of EU Paper Industries ...
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  Mooring fatigue verification of the WindCrete for a 15 MW wind turbine 

  Trubat Casal, Pau; Molins i Borrell, Climent; Alarcón Fernández, Daniel; Arramounet, Valentin; Mahfouz, Mohammad Youssef (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
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  LCOE reduction in FOWTs is heading to larger wind turbines in order to increase power production and capacity. NREL and DTU have recently developed a 15MW reference wind turbine, which can be used to validate the platform ...
• Sprayed cementitious mortars to strengthen urban buildings: Case study in Barcelona, Spain 

  Pons Valladares, Oriol; Huang, Dawei; Albareda Valls, Albert; Pellegrino, Francesco; Segura Pérez, Ignacio; Garcia, Tomàs; Zamora i Mestre, Joan-Lluís; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la (2020)
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  Cities the world over require more resilient architecture that satisfies stricter structural safety standards than in the past. However, there are too many urban building structures about to reach the end of their designed ...
• Flexural stiffness factors for stability design of stainless steel planar frames 

  Shen, Yanfei; Chacón Flores, Rolando Antonio (Curran associates, 2021)
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  The Direct Analysis Method is the primary method for the stability design of carbon steel frames in AISC 360-16. The method refers to a second-order elastic analysis performed on members whose tangent stiffness moduli are ...

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