From Materials to Structures: Advancement through Innovation by Bijan Samali, Mario M. Attard, Chongmin Song

By Bijan Samali, Mario M. Attard, Chongmin Song

From fabrics to buildings: development via Innovation is a suite of peer-reviewed papers awarded on the twenty second Australasian convention at the Mechanics of constructions and fabrics (ACMSM22) held in Sydney Australia, from 11-14 December 2012 by way of lecturers, researchers and training engineers mostly from Australasia and the Asia-Pacific quarter. the subjects below dialogue include:

• Biomechanics
• Composite buildings and materials
• Computational mechanics
• Concrete, masonry, metal and bushes structures
• Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics
• fireplace engineering
• Geomechanics
• starting place engineering
• leading edge and shrewdpermanent structures
• Pavement engineering
• Rehabilitation of structures
• Rock engineering
• web site investigation
• Soil development and reinforcement
• Structural health and wellbeing monitoring
• Structural optimisation
• Sustainable materials

From fabrics to buildings: development via Innovation may be a invaluable reference for teachers, researchers and practicing engineers operating in structural and fabric engineering and mechanics.

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8% Table 5. Annual sulphur average in steel at SSM[24] . 0224% S Figure 5. Slag profiling of two UMC heats at 35% rubber/ 65% coke and 100% coke[24] . Higher FeO reduction rate was observed when rubber replaced partially the conventional coke (Figure 5). 6 CONCLUSIONS This article describes experimental investigations on slag foaming characteristics of coke/polymer mixtures (tyre rubber in particular) and coke-palm shell conducted at UNSW laboratories. The chemistry of the carbon based material was seen to play an important role in the structure of the residual particle, influencing the release of gaseous emissions and thus the subsequent reactions with the slag.

The equation above implies that the risk of structural failure depends on both the hazard quantity and vulnerability of the structure. In order to evaluate the impact of natural hazards at one location, a statistically developed hazard map is utilised; such a map is the seismic hazard map that describes the seismic intensity of a particular area 16 using the probability of exceedance. The methodologies for performing hazard analysis and monitoring have been are well established. On the other hand, approaches to quantify a time-variant structural vulnerability are still under research and development.

Two fronts of research in monitoring are currently active, namely sensing technologies, and structural diagnostic/prognostic techniques. The former typically deals with sensor types and systems, data acquisition, data processing, communication, management and storage. The latter deals with data analysis and interpretation, system identification, local and global diagnostics, defect/damage detection and remaining life prediction, all of which are represented by performance indicators. Sensor technology paradigm has moved from portable-linked systems to wireless-embedded ones, from macro to micro in size (for instance microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)), from ad-hoc to smart and self-sufficient in power consumption.

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