Dapped‐end beams, featuring a reduced or notched termination, are widely implemented in reinforced concrete structures, particularly in precast systems where construction efficiency is paramount. The ...

This video illustrates a flexural test performed on a fiber-reinforced concrete beams using a universal testing machine from ADMET. ASTM C1609 is a standard test method used to determine the flexural ...

This short film, first published in 2012, is for teachers and review is recommended before use in class. Mark Miodownik puts the properties of reinforced concrete to the test. He watches as a beam of ...

A team of researchers from the University of Lisbon has recently published a study in Engineering, presenting a reliability-based code calibration procedure for pultruded glass fibre-reinforced ...

It's tempting to think of "strength" as a simple variable and that various materials all fall somewhere on a spectrum of strong to weak. The reality, of course, is much more complex. Different ...