Andrew Davol

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development of a new structural system for short and medium span bridges wherein use is made of both advanced composites and conventional materials such as concrete, using prefabricated composite tubes as girders which are then filled with concrete, after which a conventional precast or cast-in-place, or advanced composite, deck system is integrated to form the bridge superstructure.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hybrid composite concrete system with a fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) shell and a concrete core was developed for use as bending members in civil structural applications.

TL;DR: In vitro growth protocols that can comprehensively quantify articular cartilage structure-function relations via measurement of mechanical and biochemical properties are designed and results that CC/UCC moduli and UCC Poisson's ratios were correlated with COL and PYR are reported.

TL;DR: The proposed cartilage growth mixture model can match tissue biochemical content and volume exactly while predicting theoretical values of tensile moduli that do not significantly differ from experimental values, which suggest that the model may help to guide in vitro growth protocols for AC tissue via the a priori prediction of geometric and biomechanical properties.

TL;DR: The long range objective of this work is to develop a cartilage growth finite element model (CGFEM) based on the theories of growing mixtures that has the capability to depict the evolution of the anisotropic and inhomogeneous mechanical properties, residual stresses, and nonhomogeneities that are attained by native adult cartilage.