Carlos Zanuy Sánchez - Research
Assistant professor
- Teaching areas: Strength of Materials / Beam Theory. Elasticity and Plasticity (3rd year). Experimental structural analysis (5th year).
Research interests
- Theoretical modelling and experimental behaviour of concrete structures.
- Long term and fatigue behaviour of concrete structures.
- Bond mechanics between concrete and steel reinforcement.
- Hybrid FRP-concrete bridges.
On-going research projects
- Intelligent railway viaducts (VIADINTEL and VIADINTEGRA). Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Mission: development of intelligent monitoring systems for high-speed railway viaducts, with emphasis on the assessment of fatigue and corrosion damage. Correlation between structural damage and change of dynamic properties.
- Experimental investigation of the flexural strength of threaded joints for steel tubes. Funded by: Keller-Terra.
Main publications
- Zanuy C., Maya L.F., Albajar L., de la Fuente P. (2011): Transverse fatigue behaviour of lightly reinforced concrete bridge decks. Engineering Structures, 33 (10), pp. 2839-2849. ISSN 0141-0296.
- Zanuy C., Albajar L., de la Fuente P. (2011): El proceso de fatiga del hormigón y su influencia estructural. Materiales de Construcción, 61 (303), pp. 385-399. ISSN 0465-2746.
- Zanuy C., Albajar L., Gallego J.M. (2011): Toward modelling the shear fatigue behaviour of reinforced concrete beams without shear reinforcement. 7th International Conference on Analytical Models and New Concepts in Concrete and Masonry Structures AMCM 2011, Krakow (Poland).
- Zanuy C., de la Fuente P., Albajar L. (2010): Estimation of parameters defining negative tension stiffening. Engineering Structures, 32 (10), pp. 3355-3362. ISSN 0141-0296.
- Zanuy C. (2010): Analytical approach to factors affecting long-term tension stiffening. Magazine of Concrete Research, 62 (12), pp. 869 –878. ISSN 0024-9831.
- Zanuy C., Albajar L., de la Fuente P. (2010): On the cracking behaviour of the reinforced concrete tension chord under repeated loading. Materials and Structures, 43 (5), pp. 611-632. ISSN 1359-5997.
- Zanuy C. (2010): Investigating the negative tension stiffening effect of reinforced concrete. Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 34 (2), pp. 189-211. ISSN 1225-4568.
- Zanuy C., Albajar L., de la Fuente P. (2010): Tension stiffening of tension members under highly repeated loads, Third international fib congress, Washington, D.C., 29 May - 2 June 2010.
- Zanuy C., Albajar L., de la Fuente P. (2010): Serviceability of reinforced concrete elements under high cycle fatigue loading, 34th IABSE Symposium, Venice, 22 - 24 September 2010.
- Zanuy C., Albajar L., de la Fuente P. (2009): Sectional analysis of concrete structures under fatigue loading. ACI Structural Journal, 106 (5), pp. 667-677. ISSN 0889-3241.
- Zanuy C., de la Fuente P., Albajar L. (2007): Effect of fatigue degradation of the compression zone of concrete in reinforced concrete sections. Engineering Structures, 29 (11), pp. 2908-2920. ISSN 0141-0296.
