Deformational Properties of Polymer Concrete during Long-Term Exposure to Water

Changes in the elastic and viscoelastic (creep) characteristics of polymer concrete and its structural components (polyester resin, unfilled or filled with diabase flour) during a long-term exposure to water at 20°C were studied. Modeling the structural changes in polymer concrete with time showed an increase in the relative volume content of pores filled with water and a decrease in that of unfilled pores. Based on the free-volume concept and the data on swelling due to moistening and shrinkage due to physical aging of the binder, a rather accurate estimate of the time-moisture reduction function for polymer concrete was obtained. The function was found to be nonmonotonic: the interval of increase was followed by an interval of decrease.     

An elastic micro-structural continuous damage model

The paper formulates a micro-structural continuous damage theory describing an anisotropic damage field. The model can be reduced to some of the major models well known at present, and the numerical analyses are compared with the experimental data of the concrete specimen under uniaxial tension and compression.     

钢筋混凝土箱梁开裂后剪力滞效应的研究

本文用级数分析方法分析了钢筋混凝土箱梁开裂后的剪力滞效应,推得了剪滞应力公式.根据应力公式,本文还探讨了剪力滞效应随配筋率ρ等的变化情况.     

弹丸对钢筋混凝土中钢筋交汇处侵彻效应研究

考虑弹丸在钢筋交汇处与钢筋直接发生作用的情况,提出了弹丸侵彻钢筋混凝土的近似模型。利用该模型得到了弹丸侵彻钢筋混凝土过程中弹丸的加速度时间历程。计算结果与实验结果符合较好。用该模型分析了不同配筋结构、配筋尺寸和网眼尺寸对侵彻深度和侵彻过程的影响,结果表明:弹丸从钢筋交汇处侵彻时,当弹丸动能相对较小时,随着网眼尺寸的减小,弹丸的大部分能量均消耗在侵彻第一层配筋结构中,当弹丸动能较大时,不管网眼尺寸多大,第一层配筋均只消耗掉弹丸的部分能量;配筋直径和网眼尺寸对侵彻深度的影响较大。     

混凝土层裂强度测量的新方法

提出了利用Hopkionson压杆测量混凝土层裂强度的新实验方法:用高聚物材料取代传统的金属材料透射杆,混凝土试件为细长杆,由于高聚物波阻抗比混凝土小,试件中压缩波在试件/吸收杆界面反射后形成拉伸波使试件产生层裂破坏,通过吸收杆上透射波形可以确定混凝土层裂强度。由于波在粘弹性材料中的弥散效应,吸收杆中透射波形会发生变化,但三维有限元分析表明,在利用吸收杆上透射波确定混凝土层裂强度时弥散产生的影响可以忽略。按照一维特征线理论,可以由吸收杆上的应变波形确定出混凝土材料的层裂强度。     

Modeling of Thermal Conductivity of Concrete with Vermiculite by Using Artificial Neural Networks Approaches

In this article, the thermal conductivity of concrete with vermiculite is determined and also predicted by using artificial neural networks approaches, namely the radial basis neural network and multi-layer perceptron. In these models, 20 datasets were used. For the training set, 12 datasets (60%) were randomly selected, and the residual datasets (8 datasets, 40%) were selected as the test set. The root mean square error, the mean absolute error, and determination coefficient statistics are used as evaluation criteria of the models, and the experimental results are compared with these models. It is found that the radial basis neural network model is superior to the other models.     

Using origami boxes to explore concepts of geometry and calculus

The purpose of this classroom note is to provide an example of how a simple origami box can be used to explore important concepts of geometry and calculus. This article describes how an origami box can be folded, then it goes on to describe how its volume and surface area can be calculated. Finally, it describes how the box could be folded to maximize the surface area and the volume.     

Study of γ‐Fast Neutron Attenuation and Mechanical Characteristics of Modified Concretes for Shielding and Sheltering Purposes

The study of γ‐neutrons attenuation and mechanical characteristics of modified concrete are vital and crucial parameters for the construction of civilian radiological, nuclear shielding, and/or shelters. In this work, fifteen samples of ordinary concretes with five different additives; steel fibers, polypropylene, silica fume, and fly ash, with variation of cement percentages, were prepared and used for performing the mechanical and radiation attenuation investigations. The compressive strength, tensile strength, slump test, bulk density, and water permeability were also carried out for the prepared concrete mixes. Collimated coherent beams from ⁶⁰Co and Pu‐Be fast neutron sources were used to check the radiation penetrability through the syntheized mixed concrete‐additives. Very sensitive and well calibrated gamma‐neutron pulse shape discriminating spectrometer with its electronic componenets and stilbene organic detector and 3′′ × 3′′ NaI scintillation crystal was used to measure the radiation before and after attenuation and transmission. The integrated fast neutron removal macroscopic cross section (Σ_r) and linear attenuation coefficient of total gamma rays (μ) were calculated for all the analysed concrete mixes. The results of measurements, tests, analyses and calculations are given and explained. The investigated modified concrete mixes show good workability and properties from the view point of mechanical loads and γ‐fast neutrons penetrability and resistance. These results can be used for shielding and sheltering design.