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In order to study the bonding characteristic of the BFRP(Basalt Fiber Reinforced Plastics for short) bars and the basalt fiber reinforced concrete, the BFRP was embedded into the cubic concrete specimen which mixed the basalt fiber sized the edge length 150 mm. By changing the diameter of the BFRP, the bonding length of the BFRP and the basalt fiber volume content of the basalt fiber reinforced concrete, the experimental results indicate that the average bonding strength decreased while the bonding length increased and it become weaker while the diameter of the BFRP was bigger, and it shows the best effect of the bonding strength when its fiber content was 0.1% comparing with three kinds of fiber content. The bond-slip constitutive model of BFRP bar and the basalt fiber concrete corresponded to the continuous curve model.

The test results of six connections under cyclic loading are presented in the paper. Each test specimen was properly designed to model the interior joint of a moment resisting frame, and was identically comprised of three parts that including the circular concrete filled steel tube columns, the reinforced concrete beams, and the short fabricated connection stubs. Energy dissipation was designed to occur in the beams during a severe earthquake. Steel bars which were embedded into concrete core and welded to the connection stubs, were used to transfer the force distributed by the reinforcing bars of concrete beam to the concrete core. The results indicated that the embedded steel bars were very efficient in eliminating the stress concentration on the tube wall and there was no visible deformation occurred on the tube wall until the collapse of the specimen. Furthermore, the connection of each specimen had enough capacity and thus the plastic hinge appeared in the beams. As results, the ductility of this new type structure directly depended on the RC beams.

Co-continuous ceramic composites have a complicated topology structure which makes it much more difficult for finite element model reconstruction. In this paper, the two-dimensional co-continuous ceramic composites finite element model is reconstructed by a modified quartet structure generation set method which modified the generation parameters based on quartet structure generation set (QSGS) method, and a numerical simulation at high strain rate is accomplished. The content mainly contains: (1) The distribution features of metal phase and ceramic phase of real co-continuous ceramic composites SEM image is calculated by mathematical statistics to determine the parameters that control the reconstruction such as volume fraction, core distribution probability and directional growth probability; (2) Two phase volume fraction and 2-point correlation function of the reconstructed finite element model is calculated as the quality assessment parameters, which verify the reconstructed finite element model are in allowable error range compared with the real SEM image; (3) Numerical simulation at high strain rate is carried out using the reconstructed finite element model. The failure behavior of co-continuous ceramic composites at high strain rate is analyzed, validates the reconstructed finite element model meets the requirements of numerical calculation.

Subjecting to the compressive membrane action (CMA), the ultimate load capacity of the reinforced concrete (RC) slab with lateral restraint would be improved obviously. Test of 12 one-way slab specimens restrained by shear-walls was carried out to investigate the properties of the slab strips’ compressive membrane action. The reduced-size specimens were designed to keep the ratios of shear-walls’ restraint stiffness to slab strips’ flexural stiffness unchanged. One horizontal testing instrument was first used to record the development of the slabs’ lateral restraint forces. The ultimate loads of slab strips with certain lateral restraint stiffness gave an average 38.3% rise from the calculations of upper-bound method. Though the increment of slab’s ultimate load was due to the additional moment formed by the lateral restraint force, the results showed that the peak of lateral force lagged of the slab strips’ ultimate load, which was different from the previous hypothesis. Various parameters which affect the development of CMA were also investigated, such as the shear-wall’s thickness, axial load on the walls, the slab strips’ span-height ratio and reinforcement percentage.