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SUMMARY:Civil Engineering Structures Incorporating Advanced Composite Mate
 rials
DTSTART:20151127T121500
DTEND:20151127T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Wendel Sebastian\, Reader in Structural Engineering\, Unive
 rsity of Bristol\, United Kingdom\nDue to their high stiffness-to-weight a
 nd strength-to-weight ratios\, along with their corrosion resistance\, adv
 anced composites (commonly glass and carbon fibre reinforced polymers) are
  well-established as renowned structural materials in high-level aerospace
  and automotive applications.  For similar reasons these materials show s
 trong potential for cost-effective life extension of existing Civil Engine
 ering structures (e.g. buildings and bridges)\, and also\, in combination 
 with traditional construction materials\, for economic new-build of light\
 , rapidly assembled bridges with potentially enhanced durability.  In the
 se Civil Engineering applications\, the key is to develop solutions which 
 exploit the properties unique to advanced composites.  This requires inve
 stigation of the underlying mechanics of structures incorporating these ex
 citing materials.  The talk will describe research at Bristol University 
 focused on such mechanics.  The two examples chosen – one for existing 
 structures\, the other for new-build – will illustrate the following con
 cepts\, namely :\n• The benefit of sometimes inverting design philosophy
  - from strengthening to stiffening - at the ultimate limit state.\n• Lo
 ng-term effects due to local interaction between lorry tyres and bridge de
 cks made of these novel\, anisotropic composite materials\nBio :  Dr Wend
 el Sebastian is a Reader in Structural Engineering at the University of Br
 istol.  His research on composite structures spans from road bridges made
  wholly or partly of advanced composite materials\, to timber-concrete com
 posite floors for buildings.  He has led multiple projects entailing test
 s at different scales (from material coupons to full-scale bridges) in the
  laboratory\, in parallel with nonlinear numerical analyses and\, recently
 \, field testing and remote monitoring of in-service road bridges with adv
 anced composite decks.  An important feature of these projects is the fee
 ding of research outputs into existing design guidance (e.g. TR55 for adva
 nced composite strengthening of concrete structures\, or the emerging Euro
 pean technical document for new-build advanced composite bridges).
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