Terk Yiang Lim

• Business Development Manager at Air Liquide Malaysia

Background.: An innovative approach to choosing hospital equipment is to consider the environmental costs in addition to other costs and benefits. Methods.: We used life cycle assessment to model the environmental and financial costs of different scenarios of replacing reusable anaesthetic equipment with single-use variants. The primary environm...

An analytical and experimental investigation into the moment-curvature M- phi and load-deflection P- delta characteristics of steel-fiber concrete (SFC) beams is reported. Explicit expressions are given for the moduli of elasticity and the tensile and compressive stress-strain behavior of the composite. In flexure, the composite is treated as a bim...

An analytical model to predict the tensile behavior of steel-fiber concrete (SFC) is proposed. The model predicts the elastic and post-cracking behavior of SFC by considering the tensile load-extension responses of an uncracked and a precracked SFC specimen. Based on easily quantifiable material and mix parameters, the model is shown to give good p...

Synopsis An analytical approach for predicting the shear and moment capacity of reinforced steel-fibre-concrete (RSFC) beams is proposed. Recent plasticity analyses for shear capacity of reinforced concrete beams are extended to RSFC beams by including the contribution of the fibres. Moment capacity is derived using the usual sectional analysis and...

Synopsis The effect of the volumetric composition of cellular concrete, particularly water and air voids, on its compressive strength has been demonstrated to follow Feret's general formula. The increase in strength at all ages with a corresponding increase in water/cement ratio (opposite to that of mortar mixes) as obtained in the experiment has b...