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SUMMARY:CESS Seminar : Engineering Timber-Concrete Composite Structures
DTSTART:20181116T121500
DTEND:20181116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T120129Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Luca Sorelli is professor at Université Laval (Quebec) an
 d director of the laboratory on Multiscale Characterization of Constructio
 n Materials (MCCM). He has worked at different international research grou
 ps\, such as\, the durability division at IFSTTAR (Paris)\, the civil engi
 neering department at MIT (Cambridge) and the LCR research center of Lafar
 geHolcim (Saint-Quentin-Fallavier). Dr. Sorelli is member of the industria
 l consortium CIRCERB on eco-responsible structure. The vision of his resea
 rch group is to develop efficient material-to-structure approach for foste
 ring structural applications of new composite materials\, which can fulfil
  the needs of today society and address the environmental challenges.\nWhy
  not taking advantage of the potentials offered by both timber and concret
 e for engineering composite structures in terms of material saving\, vibra
 tional behavior and environmental imprint? Dr. Sorelli will present recent
  research advances in Timber-Concrete Composite (TCC)\, such as: (i) the e
 xtension of the dynamic theory of a composite beam to consider the effect 
 of the rotatory inertia on the vibrational modes\; (ii) an original multi-
 scale model for predicting the TCC structural behavior from the connector 
 property\; (iii) a novel composite connector made of UHPFRC and steel to g
 uarantee the structural ductility\; (iv) the multi-criteria design and lab
 oratory validation of slender floor structures made of Glulam beam or CLT 
 slab with a thin slab of Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete 
 (UHPFRC).  The result discussion will highlight the main features of TCC 
 structures and a new outlook for future applications.\n 
LOCATION:GC B1 10 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GCB110
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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