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Item Development and application of FASSTbridge solution to Jarama bridge (fast and effective solution for steel bridges lifetime extension)(International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2018) Chataigner, Sylvain; Benzarti, Karim; Foret, Gilles; Caron, Jean François; Quiertant, Marc; Zalbide, Maria; Garcia, David; Calderon, Inigo; Pinero, Ignacio; Gemignani, Gianluca; Birtel, Veit; Lehmann, Frank; Wahbeh, Mazen; Boundouki, Rami; Martin, Elena; Sopena, Luis; Weidemueller, Mark; Fischer, Michael; Iborra, Concepcion; E&I SEGURAS Y RESILIENTES; Tecnalia Research & InnovationOne of the goals of sustainable development applied to bridge infrastructure is to provide bridge owners with strengthening solutions that may lead to an increase of existing structures service life. In the case of steel bridges, the assessment of the remaining service life is most often linked to the determination of the structural deterioration caused by corrosion and fatigue. Damage caused by fatigue is very difficult to assess before crack initiation, and is more bound to occur in old structures, for which the phenomenon was not taken into account in design before 1970. In addition, old steel materials present a more brittle behavior. In answer to these challenges, the FASSTbridge project, financed through European Infravation call, aimed at developing a pre-cracking fatigue assessment and strengthening methodology for steel bridges based on the technology of adhesively bonded composite. The proposed article presents some of the results of this project.Item AN OVERVIEW OF SUSTAINABLE CONCRETES WITH MAXIMIZED AGGREGATE CONTENT: NATURAL LIMESTONE VERSUS STEEL-MAKING SLAGS(University of Cantabria - Building Technology R&D Group, 2022) García-Cortés, Verónica; Garcia, David; Revilla-Cuesta, Victor; Romera, Jesús María; San-José, José Tomás; Blanco, Haydee; Boffill, Yosbel; Lombillo, Ignacio; TRAZABILIDAD CIRCULARThe conversion of various industrial by-products from Spanish factories into co-products used in partial substitution of cement and concrete aggregate has been extensively studied since the 1990s. Building on that research effort, the present investigation is focused on improving the packing density of concrete aggregates, with special emphasis on two central objectives: Firstly, the reduction of cement and natural aggregate content within concrete; secondly, the validation of their substitution by Electric Arc Furnace Slag (black-slag) aggregate. To do so, several experimental campaigns were conducted, in which 4 compaction procedures were applied under dry conditions to: 4 sieved fractions of natural limestone and 3 sieved fractions of black-slag aggregates. The physical properties of the 7 sieved fractions had previously been characterized and compared with theoretical models, in order to validate their dosing in the experimental tests: Fuller curve, Funk and Dinger curve, Compressible Packing Model, and the 3-Parameter Packing model. The aggregate-packing densities were experimentally and theoretically studied with dry methods. Our findings showed that, unlike natural aggregates, other methods based on aggregate shape are preferable for black-slag mixtures, due to the specific textures and their abrupt particle contours. The conclusions from the investigations were that both the Compressible Packing Model and the 3- Parameter Packing models produced valuable packing-density predictions for the binary mixes.Item Round Robin Test for composite-to-brick shear bond characterization(2012-12) Valluzzi, Maria Rosa; Oliveira, Daniel V.; Caratelli, Angelo; Castori, Giulio; Corradi, Marco; De Felice, Gianmarco; Garbin, Enrico; Garcia, David; Garmendia, Leire; Grande, Ernesto; Ianniruberto, Ugo; Kwiecień, Arkadiusz; Leone, Marianovella; Lignola, Gian Piero; Lourenço, Paulo B.; Malena, Marialaura; Micelli, Francesco; Panizza, Matteo; Papanicolaou, Catherine G.; Prota, Andrea; Sacco, Elio; Triantafillou, Thanasis C.; Viskovic, Alberto; Zaja̧c, Boguslaw; Zuccarino, Gina; TRAZABILIDAD CIRCULAR; Tecnalia Research & InnovationThe paper presents the experience of a working group within the RILEM Technical Committee 223-MSC 'Masonry Strengthening with Composite materials', aimed at developing a standardized, reliable procedure for characterizing the bonding mechanism of masonry elements strengthened with composite materials under shear actions. Twelve laboratories from European universities and research centers were involved. Two different set-ups were compared, for single-lap and double-lap shear tests (the latter in two versions). Four kinds of fiber fabrics, i.e., glass, carbon, basalt and steel, were applied with epoxy resins (wet lay-up system) to clay brick units, for a total of 280 monotonic tests. The results provided information regarding the response of externally bonded-to-brick composites in terms of observed failure mechanisms, load capacity, effective transfer length, and bond shear stress-slip behavior. The test results of the 12 laboratories constitute a set of statistically representative data which may conveniently be used for setting appropriate design provisions and guidelines.