Publications by Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia

Concrete compressive strength: From material characterization to a structural value

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia, Qianhui Yu

The compressive resistance of concrete in new structures is usually characterized on the basis of tests performed on concrete cylinders or cubes under relatively rapid loading conditions. Although efficient for material characterization, these tests do not ...

ERNST & SOHN2021

On the compressive and bond strength of reinforced concrete as structural properties

Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia

Traditionally, the concrete strength is measured on cubes or cylinders having normalized dimensions, suitable vibration and curing conditions and their strength is assessed in laboratory under fast loading rates. However, the in-situ strength of structural ...

EPFL2021

Casting position effects on bond performance of reinforcement bars

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia

The phenomena associated with the consolidation of fresh concrete (bleeding and plastic settlement) are commonly considered significant for the bond performance of reinforcement. However, rules to take care of such influence for design are not consistent a ...

ERNST & SOHN2021

Spalling of concrete cover induced by reinforcement

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia

This paper investigates the phenomenon of cover spalling in reinforced concrete induced by bond or by the action of an inner pressure. This research is based on an experimental programme comprising a series of bond tests and a series of tests with inner-pr ...

2021

The influence of casting position and disturbance induced by reinforcement on the structural concrete strength

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia

It is well known that control specimens used to assess the concrete strength of new structures have different casting and curing conditions than those of actual structures. Notably, after pouring of the concrete and before its hardening, a number of phenom ...

ERNST & SOHN2021

Efficiency Factors for Plastic Design in Concrete: Influence of Brittleness in Compression, High Tech Concrete: Where Technology and Engineering Meet

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia

A large number of design approaches for structural concrete rely on the applicability of limit analysis. This is for instance the case of bending and shear design in members with transverse reinforcement, where it is assumed that plastic compression fields ...

2017