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Enhanced blast resistance of reinforced concrete slabs using carbon fiber reinforced polymer as externally bonded reinforcement Universiteit Gent
Experimental study of blast response of RC slabs with externally bonded reinforcement Universiteit Gent
Blast response of RC slabs with externally bonded reinforcement under two independent explosions Universiteit Gent
Blast response of RC slabs with externally bonded reinforcement : experimental and analytical verification Universiteit Gent
Stay-in-Place Formwork of TRC Designed as Shear Reinforcement for Concrete Beams Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In order to reduce on-site building time, the construction industry shows an increasing interest in stay-in-place formwork with a reinforcement function after concrete hardening, such as CFRP formwork confinement for columns. The current combined systems however do not answer the demand of the building industry for a material system that is both lightweight and fire safe. High performance textile reinforced cement (TRC) composites can address ...
Bond behaviour of FRP shear reinforcement on I-sections Universiteit Gent
Although external fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcements are easy to manipulate around any shape, their behaviour varies with respect to the geometry of the strengthened cross sections. This is in particular the case for shear strengthening of I-sections, such as prestressed concrete girders. The externally bonded (EBR) FRP shear reinforcement is susceptible to early debonding around the internal angles at the web-flange interface. Due to ...
Potential of memory steel reinforcement for shear strengthening of concrete bridge girders with I-sections Universiteit Gent
This study was carried out to assess the performance of near surface mounted (NSM) memory steel reinforcement for shear strengthening of concrete girders with I-sections. Specially designed/strengthened concrete I-sections were tested in tension and the bond behaviour of memory steel was observed and reported as failure mode, load displacement and strain variation. It has been demonstrated that the memory steel reinforcement has a great ...
Guiding the exploration strategy of a reinforcement learning agent Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a Machine Learning method mimicking the way humans learn to perform new tasks, specifically when it involves a great amount of trial and error. By nature, it is a progressive process that requires many interactions with the environment, and therefore time, before it can exhibit a satisfactory behavior. Consequently, an important challenge faced by current RL techniques is sample-efficiency. While most approaches to ...
More engagement in inefficient avoidance through partial reinforcement KU Leuven
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In anxiety-related disorders, excessive avoidance often coexists with an impaired sense of control over external threats. In contrast, lab studies have shown that avoidance responding increase with higher objective controllability over threat, accompanied with more confidence in the effectiveness of the avoidance response. One reason for this divergence could be that those lab studies are overly simplistic with a ...