Many engineering and scientific applications of flow in porous media are characterized by transport phenomena at multiple spatial scales, including pollutant transport, groundwater remediation, and acid injection to enhance well production. Carbon sequestration in particular is a multiscale problem, because the trapping and leakage mechanisms of CO2 in the subsurface occur from the sub-pore level to the basin scale. Quantitative and predictive pore-scale modeling has long shown to be a valuable tool for studying fluid-rock interactions in porous media. However, due to the size limitation of the pore-scale models (10-4-10-2m), it is impossible to model an entire reservoir at the pore scale. A straightforward multiscale approach would be to upscale macroscopic parameters (e.g. permeability) directly from pore-scale models and then input them into a continuum-scale simulator. However, it has been found that the large-scale models do not predict in many cases. One possible reason for the inaccuracies is oversimplified boundary conditions used in this direct upscaling approach. The hypothesis of this work is that pore-level flow and upscaled macroscopic parameters depends on surrounding flow behavior manifested in the form of boundary conditions. The detailed heterogeneity captured by the pore-scale models may be partially lost if oversimplified boundary conditions are employed in a direct upscaling approach. As a result, extracted macroscopic properties may be inaccurate. Coupling the model to surrounding media (using finite element mortars to ensure continuity between subdomains) would result in more realistic boundary conditions, and can thus improve the accuracy of the upscaled parameters. To test the hypothesis, mortar coupling is employed to couple pore-scale models and also couple pore-scale models to continuum models. Flow field derived from mortar coupling and direct upscaling are compared, preferably against a true solution if one exists. It is found in this dissertation that pore-scale flow and upscaled parameters can be significantly affected by the surrounding media. Therefore, using arbitrary boundary conditions such as constant pressure and no-flow boundaries may yield misleading results. Mortar coupling captures the detailed variation on the interface and imposes realistic boundary conditions, thus estimating more accurate upscaled values and flow fields. An advanced upscaling tool, a Super Permeability Tensor (SPT) is developed that contains pore-scale heterogeneity in greater detail than a conventional permeability tensor. Furthermore, a multiscale simulator is developed taking advantage of mortar coupling to substitute continuum grids directly with pore-scale models where needed. The findings from this dissertation can significantly benefit the understanding of fluid flow in porous media, and, in particular, CO2 storage in geological formations which requires accurate modeling across multiple scales. The fine-scale models are sensitive to the boundary conditions, and the large scale modeling of CO2 transport is sensitive to the CO2 behavior affected by the pore-scale heterogeneity. Using direct upscaling might cause significant errors in both the fine-scale and the large-scale model. The multiscale simulator developed in this dissertation could integrate modeling of CO2 physics at all relevant scales, which span the sub-pore or pore level to the basin scale, into one single simulator with effective and accurate communication between the scales. The multiscale simulator provides realistic boundary conditions for the fine scales, accurate upscaled information to continuum-scale, and allows for the distribution of computational power where needed, thus maintaining high accuracy with relatively low computational cost. / text

Αντικείμενο της παρούσας Διατριβής Διπλώματος Ειδίκευσης είναι η κατά βάση πειραματική διερεύνηση της αποτελεσματικότητας περίσφιγξης ορθογωνικών υποστυλωμάτων με μεγάλο λόγο πλευρών, ενισχυμένων με μανδύες ινοπλισμένων πολυμερών και σύνθετων υλικών ανόργανης μήτρας. Το πειραματικό πρόγραμμα διεξήχθη στο Εργαστήριο Μηχανικής και Τεχνολογίας Υλικών του Τμήματος Πολιτικών Μηχανικών του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών. Το πρόγραμμα αυτό, περιελάμβανε δύο σειρές δοκιμίων. Η πρώτη περιελάμβανε έξι δοκίμια και η δεύτερη δέκα. Η κατηγοριοποίηση σε σειρές έγινε με βάση το λόγο πλευρών των δοκιμίων. Έτσι, την πρώτη σειρά αποτέλεσαν δοκίμια με λόγο πλευρών (3:1), ενώ τη δεύτερη δοκίμια με λόγο πλευρών (4:1). Ένα δοκίμιο από κάθε σειρά δοκιμάσθηκε χωρίς ενίσχυση και αποτέλεσε μέτρο σύγκρισης για όλα τα υπόλοιπα. Τρία δοκίμια από κάθε σειρά ενισχύθηκαν με τρείς στρώσεις FRP και με θυσάνους. Ακόμα, ένα δοκίμιο από κάθε σειρά ενισχύθηκε με δύο στρώσεις FRP, χωρίς χρήση θυσάνου. Επίσης, δύο υποστυλώματα από τη δεύτερη σειρά ενισχύθηκαν με δύο στρώσεις FRP, θυσάνους και δύο επιπρόσθετες στρώσεις FRP τύπου U, στις δύο μικρές πλευρές. Τέλος, ένα δοκίμιο από κάθε σειρά ενισχύθηκε με τέσσερις στρώσεις TRΜ, ενώ άλλο ένα με τέσσερις στρώσεις TRΜ και με θυσάνους. / The subject of this thesis is the experimental investigation of the effectiveness of confining rectangular columns with large aspect ratio, reinforced with fiber reinforced polymers and with tensile reinforced mortars. The experimental program was conducted at the Laboratory of Engineering and Technology of Materials in Civil Engineering, University of Patras. This program is consisted of two sets of samples. The first included six small scale columns and the second ten. The categorization in series was based on the aspect ratio of the specimens. So specimens with aspect ratio (3: 1) were included in the first series, while the second included specimens with aspect ratio (4: 1). One specimen from each series was tested without any reinforcement and became the comparison for all the rest. Three specimens from each series were reinforced with three layers of FRP and anchors. Still, a sample from each series was reinforced with two layers of FRP, without use of anchors. Also, two columns of the second series of amplified with two layers FRP, anchors and two additional layers of FRP type U, in the two smaller sides. Finally, a sample from each series was reinforced with four layers TRM, while another one to four layers TRM and anchors.

Ενίσχυση σε κάμψη στοιχείων οπτοπλινθοδομής με τη χρήση συνθέτων υλικών ανόργανης μήτρας και με την τοποθέτηση σύνθετων ράβδων σε εγκοπές. Περιγραφή διαδικασίας ενισχύσεων, πειραματικής διαδικασίας, πειραματικών αποτελεσμάτων και θεωρητική ανάλυση. / Reinforcement of masonry using TRM(Textiles Reinforced with mortar)and NSM.

It has been shown that in today’s society, businesses will need to consider not only selling products or services, but also experiences in order to fulfil customers’ increasing demand for more stimuli in purchase situations. Additionally, brick and mortar retailers will need to respond to the increased use of online sales channels through finding ways of attracting customers to their stores. One way of responding to both trends can be to practise Experience Marketing and thereby offer holistic, stimulating and memorable customer experiences at every purchase situation. With this insight, this thesis will investigate which specific factors that are perceived as important when creating successful in-store experiences. From this, the aim is to create a framework based on customers’ perceptions that can be useful for brick and mortar retailers when implementing experience marketing. Five propositions of what factors to include in order to create successful experiences are presented. These are tested and further developed through both quantitative and qualitative research. The empirical investigation results in the creation of a final suggested framework including the supported propositions, one new Additional Factor and several suggested subcategories within each factor. The final framework suggests following factors as important when creating successful experience marketing: Store Environment, Employee Characteristics, Senses and Additional Factor.

<p>In the finite element simulation of problems with contact there arises</p><p>the need to change the mesh and continue the simulation on a new mesh.</p><p>This is encountered when the mesh has to be changed because the original mesh experiences severe distortion or the mesh is adapted to minimize errors in the solution. In such instances a crucial component is the transfer of data from the old mesh to the new one. </p><p>This work proposes a strategy by which such remeshing can be accomplished in the presence of mortar-discretized contact, </p><p>focusing in particular on the remapping of contact variables which must occur to make the method robust and efficient. </p><p>By splitting the contact stress into normal and tangential components and transferring the normal component as a scalar and the tangential component by parallel transporting on the contact surface an accurate and consistent transfer scheme is obtained. Penalty and augmented Lagrangian formulations are considered. The approach is demonstrated by a number of two and three dimensional numerical examples.</p> / Dissertation

This study is intended to provide the archaeologist with a solid understanding of the use of bricks and mortar in colonial New England and to examine the construction of New England colonial residential structures to determine if attributes exist that would allow the development of a regional diachronic or synchronic typology for aid in dating the structures either relatively or absolutely. This paper examines the technology involved in the produc ion of bricks and lime mortar, the construction of seventeenth and eighteenth century foundations, and the social environment that influenced the use of bricks. From the information presented in the paper, the archaeologist should gain an understanding of bricks as artifacts in the New England colonial landscape in order to improve the manner in which b licks are investigated and change the way in which archaeologists view, and therefore r -,cord information about, bricks, mortar, and foundations in Colonial New England. / Department of Anthropology

The Accelerated Mortar Bar test (AMBT) is rapid, reproducible, and perhaps the most widely used technique for examining the potential alkali-silica reactivity of aggregates. Unfortunately, this test is often unreliable as it may identify non-reactive aggregate as reactive and vice versa. With the aim of improving the accuracy of AMBT, two modifications to the current procedure were evaluated: 1) the maturity of mortar bars prior to alkali hydroxide exposure and 2) reduction of the storage temperature. The original and modified versions were performed on six aggregates with alkali-silica reactive (ASR) components, and their expansions and ASR classifications were compared. Results show that increasing the maturity had no significant impact on expansions. However, modifying the storage temperature to 60˚C and extending the period of testing to 28 days can be very effective in terms of more reliably identifying the existing falsely identified aggregates.

The Accelerated Mortar Bar test (AMBT) is rapid, reproducible, and perhaps the most widely used technique for examining the potential alkali-silica reactivity of aggregates. Unfortunately, this test is often unreliable as it may identify non-reactive aggregate as reactive and vice versa. With the aim of improving the accuracy of AMBT, two modifications to the current procedure were evaluated: 1) the maturity of mortar bars prior to alkali hydroxide exposure and 2) reduction of the storage temperature. The original and modified versions were performed on six aggregates with alkali-silica reactive (ASR) components, and their expansions and ASR classifications were compared. Results show that increasing the maturity had no significant impact on expansions. However, modifying the storage temperature to 60˚C and extending the period of testing to 28 days can be very effective in terms of more reliably identifying the existing falsely identified aggregates.

Zugl.: Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 306-312). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.