Reinforced concrete

The Institute of Civil Engineering Construction of the Faculty of Engineering Science at Universidad
Austral de Chile (UACh, Chile) invites applications for two faculty positions. The areas of specific interest
are:

• Soil Mechanics, Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering (E-138 2022)
• Reinforced Concrete Design or Design of Steel / Timber Structures (E-1372022)

Applicants must have a PhD (doctorate degree). Post open until February 28, 2023.

See attached job post.

Aging infrastructures represent a current engineering challenge. Huge budgets are necessary to keep their functionality and the lack of a proper and timely maintenance entails an increasing deterioration and therefore higher repair costs. Therefore, assessing the reliability of infrastructures becomes mandatory, with particular attention to the ones still in service even when their life limit has exceeded.

This paper aims to propose a new, fast and low cost method of condition rating for reinforced concrete bridges. This is based on visual inspection and non-destructive testing.

This paper reports on the experimental assessment of the punching shear behaviour of reinforced recycled concrete slabs characterized by fine natural aggregates and coarse recycled aggregates. In particular, the latter were obtained only from demolished concrete. The experimental campaign has been carried out on 12 specimens. Moreover, three reinforced natural aggregate concrete slabs have been casted and tested as benchmarks. Four replacement percentages (30, 50, 80 and 100%) of coarse recycled aggregates in place of coarse natural aggregates have been considered.

What is the importance of strain rate on structural response under blast load?

This and other issues are discussed in the recent paper from Stochino F. and Carta G.:

“SDOF models for reinforced concrete beams under impulsive loads accounting for strain rate effects”, DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2014.05.022, Nuclear Engineering and Design 276, (2014), 74-86.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002954931400301X