Tensile membrane action (TMA) could significantly enhance the ultimate bearing capacity of reinforced concrete (RC) simply supported slabs under fire conditions. To address this, this paper proposes ...

Structural materials have not changed all that much since reinforced concrete was introduced to construction in the late 19th century, but a fiber-reinforced, mineral composite system from a Florida ...

Continuous beams and one-ways slabs are statically indeterminate structures which i.e they cannot be analyzed using three equations of equilibrium developed to solve unknown moments and reactions of ...

Using electricity to reduce CO 2 or CO back into valuable liquid fuels can revolutionize the way we produce chemicals/fuels. However, there are two types of impurity challenges involved: Different ...

Neurons perform computations by integrating inputs from thousands of synapses—mostly in the dendritic tree—to drive action potential firing in the axon. One fruitful approach to studying this process ...