The paper discusses the development of the advanced polymer composite material
applications in the building and civil/structural infrastructure over the past three to four …

This paper evaluates the safety factors, the applicable lengths, and relative cost of FRP (fiber
reinforced polymer) and hybrid FRP cables that are potentially suitable for cable-stayed …

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are a class of advanced non-metallic materials
featuring advantages of high strength, light weight and excellent corrosion resistance. These …

The present study considers the optimal pre-tensioning design of lattice structures forming
composite cable-stayed bridges. With reference to a model problem, a target bending …

Applications in which composite materials are used as bearing structural elements are rare
and generally copy structural solutions that have been optimized for steel for years …

Composite materials are well known for their low density, high strength and high resistance
against corrosion and fatigue; but so far only few constructions have been built with these …

Over the past few decades, fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) materials in general and glass-
fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) in particular have become popular and competitive …

Active bending structures need materials with specific mechanical properties such as large
admissible strain and sufficiently high stiffness to prevent buckling. This paper proposes to …

In this paper, ductility aspects of a light-weight composite gridshell are developed. A
gridshell is a very light structure that can support relative high loads. For many reasons, the …

This paper presents, for the first time, an analytical study on the nonlinear in-plane buckling
of angle-ply laminated shallow arches with elastic supports under a uniform radial loading …