Università degli Studi eCampus

About: Università degli Studi eCampus is a education organization based out in Novedrate, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Anxiety & Planck. The organization has 124 authors who have published 538 publications receiving 21483 citations. The organization is also known as: Universita degli Studi eCampus.

Emotion processing in Parkinson's disease: a three-level study on recognition, representation, and regulation.

Abstract: Background Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterised by well-known motor symptoms, whereas the presence of cognitive non-motor symptoms, such as emotional disturbances, is still underestimated. One of the major problems in studying emotion deficits in PD is an atomising approach that does not take into account different levels of emotion elaboration. Our study addressed the question of whether people with PD exhibit difficulties in one or more specific dimensions of emotion processing, investigating three different levels of analyses, that is, recognition, representation, and regulation.

Thermomechanical Effects Induced by Energy Piles Operation in a Small Piled Raft

Abstract: In this work, a series of fully coupled three-dimensional thermomechanical finite-element analyses has been carried out to investigate the mechanical and thermal interaction effects induced in a small piled raft equipped with energy piles during the operation of an air-conditioning system based on ground source heat pumps (GSHPs). In particular, attention has focused on (1) the axial-load redistribution among the various piles of the raft as a result of differential thermal dilations occurring in the pile and the soil during the transient heat conduction process and (2) the thermal interaction effects that may affect the heat exchange process when multiple energy piles are placed at short distances within the same piled raft. The results of the numerical simulations, which are in qualitative agreement with the limited experimental observations from full-scale tests on energy piles currently available in the literature, show that significant (positive and negative) axial-load changes can be experie...

Flexural behaviour of RC members strengthened with FRCM: State-of-the-art and predictive formulas

Abstract: Fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) composites are a promising and cost-effective technology for strengthening applications of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. The experimental and theoretical research on FRCM composites is still quite limited if compared with the amount of work carried out on fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) systems. In addition, the knowledge gained on FRCMs so far has never been collected and reviewed in a systematic framework. This paper contributes to filling this gap by collecting and reviewing the main experimental research available in the literature on flexural strengthening of RC members with FRCM composites. A large database focused on the flexural behavior of strengthened RC beams is compiled. The experimental evidence is critically examined. Comparison within groups of tests of the database is made in terms of flexural capacity and failure modes. Key aspects of the design of the FRCM reinforcement are also analyzed and open issues for possible future research areas are pointed out. For Steel-FRCM systems, a predictive formula for the strain corresponding to the debonding of the external reinforcement is proposed.