Title Participants "Bending performance of RC slabs strengthened by CFRP sheets using sprayed UHTCC as bonding layer: Experimental study and theoretical analysis" "Jingwen Liu" "Bank lending channel in a dual banking system : why are Islamic banks so responsive?" "Ahmet F Aysan, Mustafa Disli, Huseyin Ozturk" "The impact of organizational structure and lending technology on banking competition" "Hans Degryse, Steven Ongena" "Recent theoretical models argue that a bank’s organizational structure reflects its lending technology. A hierarchically organized bank will employ mainly hard information, whereas a decentralized bank will rely more on soft information. We investigate theoretically and empirically how bank organization shapes banking competition. Our theoretical model illustrates how a lending bank’s geographical reach and loan pricing strategy is determined not only by its own organizational structure but also by organizational choices made by its rivals. We take our model to the data by estimating the impact of the lending and rival banks’ organization on the geographical reach and loan pricing of a singular, large bank in Belgium. We employ detailed contract information from more than 15,000 bank loans granted to small firms, comprising the entire loan portfolio of this large bank, and information on the organizational structure of all rival banks located in the vicinity of the borrower. We find that the organizational structures of both the rival banks and the lending bank matter for branch reach and loan pricing. The geographical footprint of the lending bank is smaller when rival banks are large and hierarchically organized. Such rival banks may rely more on hard information. Geographical reach increases when rival banks have inferior communication technology, have a wider span of organization, and are further removed from a decision unit with lending authority. Rival banks’ size and the number of layers to a decision unit also soften spatial pricing. We conclude that the organizational structure and technology of rival banks in the vicinity influence local banking competition." "Nucleotides bearing aminophenyl- or aminonaphthyl-3-methoxychromone solvatochromic fluorophores for the enzymatic construction of DNA probes for the detection of proteinU+2013DNA binding" "Ján Matyasovský, Laure Tack, Attila Palágyi, Miroslav Kuba, Radek Pohl, Tomás Kraus, Pedro Güixens-Gallardo, Michal Hocek" "Investigating the effect of laser modulation and input energy on bending mechanism and bending angle in the multi-pass laser forming process through real-time monitoring" "Shivam Shukla" "Bending parameters in heat assisted air bending of high strength steels" "Vitalii Vorkov, Alberto Tomas Garcia, Joost Duflou" "The usage of high strength steels is a viable option for improving existing sheet metal constructions manufactured by air bending. This improvement can be achieved through increased payload, lighter structures or enlarged safety margins. Unfortunately, as these materials have limited cold formability, usually high strength steels cannot be formed with the same tooling as used for conventional steels. Thus, in the case of air bending, the forming punch for conventional steels should be substituted by a punch with a bigger radius. This substitution implies changes in the geometry of the final part and leads to redesigning of the complete structure due to the bigger bending radius of formed parts. Additional problems related with the usage of high strength steels are bigger bending forces during the forming process and much higher springback. These issues can be attenuated by heat assisted air bending. In this work, 6 mm plates of two different high strength steels - Strenx 700 MC and Strenx 1300 - are bent with near infrared lamps as a heating method. The experimental campaign has been performed to understand the evolution of following bending parameters: minimal bending radius, bending force, springback and bend allowance. The experimental campaign shows that heat assisted air bending with near infrared lamps is an attractive opportunity for overcoming problems related to bending of high strength steels." "Bending incorporated: designing tension structures by integrating bending-active elements" "Diederik Veenendaal, Tom Van Mele, Philippe Block" "By integrating elastically bent, linear elements, a supporting system for membrane structures is created that provides more freedom in design and can reduce the required amount of external supports. To fully explore the potential and possibilities of shaping tension structures by integrating these bending-active elements, the authors developed an easy-to-use design tool for fast, robust and flexible modelling and form finding. This paper presents the tool through a series of case studies that go beyond previously presented applications." "Field-Free Spin-Orbit Torque Driven Switching of Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junction through Bending Current" "Sebastien Couet, Gouri Sankar Kar, Mohit Gupta, Kaiming Cai, Bart Soree, Farrukh Yasin, Maxwel Gama Monteiro Junior, Vaishnavi Kateel, Siddharth Rao" "Current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) enablefast andefficient manipulation of the magnetic state of magnetic tunnel junctions(MTJs), making them attractive for memory, in-memory computing, andlogic applications. However, the requirement of the external magneticfield to achieve deterministic switching in perpendicularly magnetizedSOT-MTJs limits its implementation for practical applications. Here,we introduce a field-free switching (FFS) solution for the SOT-MTJdevice by shaping the SOT channel to create a ""bend""in the SOT current. The resulting bend in the charge current createsa spatially nonuniform spin current, which translates into inhomogeneousSOT on an adjacent magnetic free layer enabling deterministic switching.We demonstrate FFS experimentally on scaled SOT-MTJs at nanosecondtime scales. This proposed scheme is scalable, material-agnostic,and readily compatible with wafer-scale manufacturing, thus creatinga pathway for developing purely current-driven SOT systems." "Analytic model for multi-point large-radius bending of steel sheets" "Cedric Thielen, Koen Decroos, Diarmuid Shore, Guillaume Crevecoeur, Frederik De Belie" "While the majority of industrial sheet bending processes consist of conventional air bending, more complex bending processes such as multi-point bending are also utilized. Multi-point bending involves forming several bends simultaneously with changing contact conditions. Of the various models that may be employed to simulate such processes, analytic models are most attractive for industrial applications as they are time-efficient, strongly theoretically supported and easily extended to a wide range of dies layouts without the need of additional experimental data. In this paper a new analytic model is presented to predict the forming forces, the deformation of the sheet and the springback. The model is based on the literature around large-radius air bending. The geometry of the sheet is determined at each moment as a function of the tool’s positions. The reaction forces are calculated based on the equilibrium of forces and moments and the springback is calculated based on the elastic unloading of the internal bending forces. The model has been compared with a more time consuming finite element (FE) model and the geometry of the sheet has been experimentally verified by means of digital processing of video images. The proposed analytic model shows good agreement with the computational FE model and it is demonstrated to be a robust tool for calculation of the bending characteristics." "Bending crack behaviour of plain concrete beams externally reinforced with TRC" "Svetlana Verbruggen, Tine Tysmans, Jan Wastiels" "This paper presents the experimental study of concrete beams in bending, externally strengthened with Textile Reinforced Cementitious materials (TRC) with varying contact area with the concrete. In order to study the pure influence of the TRC on the concrete substrate, only non-internally-reinforced concrete beams are considered. The crack pattern evolution is monitored with Digital Image Correlation, and the influence of the contact width between the concrete substrate and the external reinforcement is investigated. The results show that the TRC reinforcement has an important crack bridging capacity, and consequently that its application over the full beam width is beneficial for the loadbearing capacity and the limitation of the crack widths of the concrete beam."