Optimization study of the structural HACFRA composition (Self Compacting Concrete Steel Fiber Reinforced)

The interest of HACFRA (self compacting concrete reinforced with steel fibers), is the combination of the residual strength increase and cracking decrease compared to plain concrete by the introduction of steel fibers in the mass with the advantages of the self-compacting. The paper presents an analysis of the influence of different components of the HACRFA and provides their selection, refered to the granular skeleton and to different steel fiber types and amount, in order to obtain an optimization of its features and structural behavior.

Análisis de la influencia de la orientación de las fibras metálicas en la resistencia de la matriz de hormigón de acuerdo al Ensayo Barcelona

[ES]El objetivo de este trabajo de fin de grado es analizar la influencia que tiene la cuantía y orientación de fibras metálicas presentes en el interior de probetas de hormigón autocompactante y cuyo objetivo es reforzar y aumentar la resistencia a tracción de este material. Se expondrán las propiedades que combina el HACRFA gracias a la autocompactación del hormigón y la inclusión de fibras en su interior y los beneficios que este nuevo material aporta. Por otro lado, se tratara de situar este estudio en un contexto, analizando a la vez cuál es el alcance y los objetivos más importantes que se han tenido en cuenta. A continuación, y a modo de complementación de su contexto, este trabajo tiene un estado del arte, en el que se mencionarán métodos y ensayos necesarios para llegar a un resultado que permita predecir cuál será la resistencia del material, y por tanto su tenacidad o capacidad de absorber energía, sin necesidad de emplear más que un método fácil y rápido, obviando el resto de ensayos destructivos utilizados en este trabajo. Para tal fin, se establece una metodología que, gracias a ensayos de laboratorio, permita establecer una relación entre el método sencillo que se ha mencionado, el método inductivo, y un resultado teórico de la tenacidad que presenta el HACRFA. Se observará cómo la desviación entre los ensayos experimentales y los resultados teóricos obtenidos es prácticamente nula, despreciando situaciones en las que se presenten comportamientos muy diferentes debido a fallos durante los ensayos.

Structural Basis for Feed-Forward Transcriptional Regulation of Membrane Lipid Homeostasis in Staphylococcus aureus

11 p.

Role of G protein coupled inwardly rectifier K+ channels (GIRK) on the neurobiology depression

353 págs.

Viability Conditions for a Compartmentalized Protometabolic System: A Semi-Empirical Approach

In this work we attempt to find out the extent to which realistic prebiotic compartments, such as fatty acid vesicles, would constrain the chemical network dynamics that could have sustained a minimal form of metabolism. We combine experimental and simulation results to establish the conditions under which a reaction network with a catalytically closed organization (more specifically, an (M, R)-system) would overcome the potential problem of self-suffocation that arises from the limited accessibility of nutrients to its internal reaction domain. The relationship between the permeability of the membrane, the lifetime of the key catalysts and their efficiency (reaction rate enhancement) turns out to be critical. In particular, we show how permeability values constrain the characteristic time scale of the bounded protometabolic processes. From this concrete and illustrative example we finally extend the discussion to a wider evolutionary context.

Electronic spectroscopy of propofol, propofol homomers ad their hydratated clusters

538 p.

An Embedded Stress Sensor for Concrete SHM Based on Amorphous Ferromagnetic Microwires

A new smart concrete aggregate design as a candidate for applications in structural health monitoring (SHM) of critical elements in civil infrastructure is proposed. The cement-based stress/strain sensor was developed by utilizing the stress/strain sensing properties of a magnetic microwire embedded in cement-based composite (MMCC). This is a contact-less type sensor that measures variations of magnetic properties resulting from stress variations. Sensors made of these materials can be designed to satisfy the specific demand for an economic way to monitor concrete infrastructure health. For this purpose, we embedded a thin magnetic microwire in the core of a cement-based cylinder, which was inserted into the concrete specimen under study as an extra aggregate. The experimental results show that the embedded MMCC sensor is capable of measuring internal compressive stress around the range of 1-30 MPa. Two stress sensing properties of the embedded sensor under uniaxial compression were studied: the peak amplitude and peak position of magnetic switching field. The sensitivity values for the amplitude and position within the measured range were 5 mV/MPa and 2.5 mu s/MPa, respectively.