Articles

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Flexural Cracks in Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Beams with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Reinforcing Bars (with Won K. Lee, Kenneth B. Berlin, and Ian E. Cohen), American Concrete Institute Structural Journal (2010)

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcing bars have attracted considerable attention for applications where corrosion of steel...

 

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Compressive Behavior of Concrete with Vitrified Soil Aggregate (with Shane M. Palmquist and Christopher W. Swan), Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (2001)

The compressive behavior of portland cement concrete with vitrified soil coarse aggregate is the focus...

 

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Removing Barriers to High-Strength Concrete in Boston (with Herman Protze), Concrete (2001)
 

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Permeability Study of Cracked Concrete (with Kejin Wang, Surendra P. Shah, and Alan F. Karr), Cement and Concrete Research (1997)

Cracks in concrete generally interconnect flow paths and increase concrete permeability. The increase in concrete...

 

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Effect of Length on Compressive Strain Softening of Concrete (with Surendra P. Shah), Journal of Engineering Mechanics (1997)

The concept of localization during the postpeak of compressive strain softening is presented. To explore...

 

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Testing of Concrete Under Closed-Loop Control (with Ravindra Gettu, Barzin Mobasher, and Sergio Carmona), Advanced Cement Based Materials (1996)

Closed-loop testing systems provide the ability to directly control the deformation of the loaded specimen....

 

Conference Proceedings

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Engineering Controlled Low Strength Materials Using Scrap Tire Rubber (with Tammie Cheung and James L. Hanson), Proceedings of GeoCongress 2008: Characterization, Monitoring, and Modeling of GeoSystems (2008)

An investigation was conducted to determine the influence of recycled scrap tire rubber on the...

 

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Thermally Treated Coal Tar Contaminated Soil as a Concrete Aggregate (with Katherine E. Leblanc, John L. Durant, Christopher Swan, and Michael J. Weaver), Proceedings of Geo-Denver 2000 (2000)

The current practice of landfilling thermally treated and untreated coal tar-contaminated soil is expensive, and...

 

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Modified Testing Procedure for the Two Parameter Fracture Model for Concrete (with W. Jason Weiss and Stefan H.F. Schleuchardt), The Proceedings of the 14th Engineering Mechanics Conference (EM2000): Austin, TX (2000)
 

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Studying Initiation and Growth of Shear Cracks in Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Full-Field Digital Imaging (with Sokhwan Choi and Surendra P. Shah), Proceedings of the First International Conference on High Strength Concrete: Kona, HI (1997)

The mechanisms which lead to shear failure of longitudinally reinforced concrete beams are complex and...