Bruno Pedrosa

University of Coimbra | UC · Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering

In this project there is proposed a new manufacturing technology for composite reinforcing bars and anchor plates. They will be characterized by a new structure, composed of minimum two layers that are a result of introducing unconventional, innovative technological solution based on pultrusion and winding methods. In order to achieve that, there will be used special active form for bars. New group of reinforcing bars (rebars) and anchor plates will be characterized by number of advantages, for example: over 3 times mass reduction, high specific strength (dependently on used fiber; for carbon fiber even 10 times higher than steel equivalent bars), lack of uncontrolled deformation during mounting, lack of products of corrosion removal before reinforcing the concrete, better resistance to chemically aggressive substances, lack of threat of limiting the influence of the Earth magnetic field (no Faraday’s cage creation in the buildings), electro-isolation. Composite anchor plate will be elastic enough to replace ground “string” anchors commonly used in civil enigineering. There will be developed nut an washer mounting system for each spot on the anchor plates. R&D program covers complex experimental research (physio-chemical investigations) as well as mechanical tests under static, dynamic and cyclic loading in various corrosive environments and temperatures. That will allow the experiment to reflect the actual extreme conditions on the structural members. Moreover, there will be proposed a smart system of monitoring the composite carrying structures according to modern construction monitoring strategy SHM (Structural Health Monitoring). During the project there are predicted experimental and numerical research in order to optimize strength of manufactured components. During the last stage there will be conducted an investigation on prefabricated concrete members reinforced with proposed newly-manufactured composite bars.

Publisher: InderScience Journal: International Journal Of Ocean Systems Management ISSN online: 1752-6590 ISSN print: 1752-6582 4 issues per year Scope IJOSM covers the aspects of technology development, materials processing, equipment, planning, design, analysis, construction, operation, maintenance and management of ocean structural systems, ocean transportation, submarines and robotics systems, marine resource development, ocean energy, environmental management, public policy and ocean use, ports, and fisheries. It particularly encourages work that successfully integrates theory, methodology, and experience in the fundamental disciplines that constitute the ocean structural systems area, such as engineering, meteorology, applied mathematics, economics, business administration, operations research, environmental and legal aspects. Topics covered include - Ocean systems/project management - Fixed and floating marine structural systems - Structural materials processing - Breakwaters and mooring systems - Submarines and robotics systems - Ocean transportation, short sea shipping, passenger ferry management - Marine resource development - Ocean Energy - Environmental management, regulations/policy for the ocean environment - Public policy and ocean use - Maritime economics and business, ocean systems economics - Technological innovation in shipping/ports, satellite applications - Intermodal systems - Knowledge-based policies/education, knowledge transfer in shipping firms - Fisheries Editors-in-Chief José A.F.O. Correia, University of Porto, Portugal, ijosm.editor@gmail.com Associate Editors-in-Chief Nicholas Fantuzzi, University of Bologna, Italy Shun-Peng Zhu, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China Soteris Kalogirou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Teresa Magoga, University of Tasmania, Australia Jeom Kee Paik, University College London, UK Assistant Editor Bruno Pedrosa, University of Coimbra, Portugal Editorial Board Members Abílio De Jesus, INEGI, Portugal Behrooz Keshtegar, University of Zabol, Iran Dimitrios Pavlou, University of Stavanger, Norway Grzegorz Lesiuk, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Hermes Carvalho, Federal University Minas Gerais, Brazil Srinivasan Chandrasekaran, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India Tiago Ferradosa, University of Porto, Portugal Valeria Casson Moreno, University of Bologna, Italy Dariusz Rozumek, Opole University of Technology, Poland Yuming Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA María Nogal, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Mohamed Seghier, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam Jinhai Zheng, Hohai University, China Kostas Belibassakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Filippo Berto, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Dear Colleagues, I invite you to submit an abstract to the Symposium Risk analysis and Safety of Technical Systems organized by Technical Committee 12 “Risk analysis and Safety of Large Structures and Components (RAS TC 12)” of the European Structural Integrity Society within the framework of the 22nd European Conference on Fracture - ECF22 to be held in Belgrade, Serbia, 26-31 August 2018 (see http://www.ecf22.rs/). The deadline for the abstracts is 31 January 2018. This Symposium is intended to be a forum of discussion of the recent advances in maintenance, safety, risk analysis, management and life-cycle performance of a wide range of infrastructures, such as, engineering technical systems, bridges, buildings, dams, railways, underground constructions, wind and transmission towers, offshore platforms, pipelines, naval vessels, ocean structures, nuclear power plants, airplanes and other types of structures including aerospace and automotive structures are considered. It is expected contributions from engineers, metallurgists, material scientists, among others, allowing a very multidisciplinary discussion. All contributions in the form of extended abstracts will be peer reviewed by the members of ESIS TC12 Technical Committee. A selection of papers presented at this Symposium will be published in a Special Issue on associated ESIS journals (International Journal of Fatigue, Engineering Failure Analysis, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics). The ESIS technical committee “TC12 - Risk Analysis and Safety of Large Structures and Components” supports the Minisymposium. The annual meeting of the TC12 will be performed during the conference event. IMPORTANT: 1) When submitting your abstract please mention the name of Symposium - “Risk analysis and Safety of Technical Systems”. 2) Please inform us about your submission/intention to submit so that we could plan Symposium’s sessions (jacorreia@inegi.up.pt) With best regards, José Correia, Vladimir Moskvichev and Aleksandar Sedmak ESIS TC12 Chairs