@inproceedings{MarzbanAlmasiSchwarz,
  author    = {Marzban, Samira and Almasi, Ashkan and Schwarz, Jochen},
  title     = {REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURAL WALL DATABASE DEVELOPMENT FOR MODEL VALIDATION},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2452},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150831-24523},
  abstract  = {Reinforced concrete walls are commonly selected as the lateral resisting systems in seismic design of buildings. The design procedure requires reliable/robust models to predict the wall response. Many researchers, thus, have focused on using the available experimental data to be able to comment on the quality of models at hand. What is missing though is an uncertain attitude towards the experimental data since such data can be affected by different sources of uncertainty. In this paper, we introduce the database created for model quality evaluation purposes considering the uncertainties in the experimental data. This is the first step of a larger study on experience-based model quality evaluation of reinforced concrete walls. Here, we briefly present the database as well as six sample validations of the developed numerical model (the quality of which is to be assessed). The database contains the information on nearly 300 wall specimens from about 50 sources. Both the database and the numerical model, built for uncertainty/sensitivity analysis purposes, are mainly based on ten parameters. These include geometry, material, reinforcement layout and loading properties. The validation results prove that the model is able to predict the wall response satisfactorily. Consequently, the validated numerical model could be used in further quality evaluation studies.},
  subject      = {Baustoff},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Almasi,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Almasi, Ashkan},
  title     = {Stochastic Analysis of Interfacial Effects on the Polymeric Nanocomposites},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2433},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150709-24339},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {The polymeric clay nanocomposites are a new class of materials of which recently have become the centre of attention due to their superior mechanical and physical properties. Several studies have been performed on the mechanical characterisation of these nanocomposites; however most of those studies have neglected the effect of the interfacial region between the clays and the matrix despite of its significant influence on the mechanical performance of the nanocomposites. There are different analytical methods to calculate the overall elastic material properties of the composites. In this study we use the Mori-Tanaka method to determine the overall stiffness of the composites for simple inclusion geometries of cylinder and sphere. Furthermore, the effect of interphase layer on the overall properties of composites is calculated. Here, we intend to get ounds for the effective mechanical properties to compare with the analytical results. Hence, we use linear displacement boundary conditions (LD) and uniform traction boundary conditions (UT) accordingly. Finally, the analytical results are compared with numerical results and they are in a good agreement. The next focus of this dissertation is a computational approach with a hierarchical multiscale method on the mesoscopic level. In other words, in this study we use the stochastic analysis and computational homogenization method to analyse the effect of thickness and stiffness of the interfacial region on the overall elastic properties of the clay/epoxy nanocomposites. The results show that the increase in interphase thickness, reduces the stiffness of the clay/epoxy naocomposites and this decrease becomes significant in higher clay contents. The results of the sensitivity analysis prove that the stiffness of the interphase layer has more significant effect on the final stiffness of nanocomposites. We also validate the results with the available experimental results from the literature which show good agreement.},
  language  = {en}
}