Structural health monitoring (SHM) is an important aspect of the assessment of various
structures and infrastructure, which involves inspection, monitoring, and maintenance to …

The growing interest in timber construction and using more wood for civil engineering
applications has given highlighted importance of developing non-destructive evaluation …

The rising usage of carbon and glass fibers has raised awareness of scrap management
options. Every year, tons of composite scrap containing precious carbon and glass fibers …

Significant developments in structural health monitoring (SHM) and in non-destructive
testing (NDT) and damage identification techniques for structural timber elements have led …

The deep learning feature extraction method and extreme learning machine (ELM)
classification method are combined to establish a depth extreme learning machine model for …

This paper aims to study the action mechanism of basalt fiber on concrete and the internal
damage evolution of basalt fiber reinforced concrete (BFRC) in Brazilian disc splitting tensile …

The objective of the present experimental work is to determine the damage mechanisms
appearing in unidirectional carbon/flax hybrid composites during tensile tests. The …

As timber structures are vulnerable to degradation due to the tendency to trap moisture, the
present study proposed a new percussion-based method to replace the existing constant …

The paper presents the experimental study of the failure behaviour of sandwich beams
subjected to bending. The samples examined are sandwich beams made of polyethylene …

Wood is very present in the structures of old buildings and real estate with historical value.
Yet, as a biodegradable material, it is highly vulnerable to adverse environmental …