The development of the blast actuator experimental device is now entering the second phase, where reinforced concrete beams are used as specimens. This demanding phase needs a lot of support from numerical simulation to both predict and resolve possible failures and to validate the test results....

Earthquakes continue to represent a serious threat for some European countries, particularly for Mediterranean bordering countries, where these events have been triggering significant destruction and loss over the last decades. Despite the unpredictable nature of earthquakes, seismic risk...

This document describes the organization of some routines for the modelling of solid materials in the EUROPLEXUS computer code (EPX) at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) at Ispra.

The international reactor safety project Phebus FP is devoted to the study of core meltdown in the case of a severe accident scenario. Its main objective is to study the fuel degradation, the release and transport of fission products and structure material in the reactor coolant system (RCS) and...

This report deals with the description of an elasto-plastic material model characterized by a stress- strain curve with hardening, i.e. monotonically increasing but irreversible beyond the elastic limit. The limit case of a material without hardening (i.e., elastic-perfectly plastic) is...

The report describes the FORTRAN subroutine SGDI for rate-independent deviatoric plasticity with von Mises yield criterion and isotropic hardening, which corresponds to the VM23 material type in the EUROPLEXUS code (abbreviated as EPX in the following). EPX is a Finite Element code for the...

This paper examines whether there is a digital divide in the use of the internet in general and for specific purposes (leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset which covers the entire clickstream of almost 20,000 internet users in the five...

Research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3) are trying to introduce a new vision of innovation policy in European regions. However, the success of RIS3 policy measures is closely dependent on the capacity of regional government institutions to act as coordinators or...

The EDGAR INGOS CH4 and N2O emission inventory provides bottom-up estimates of global anthropogenic CH4 and N2O emissions for the period 2000-2010. The EDGAR InGOS product is an update of the EDGARv4.2FT2010 inventory, taking into account emissions reported as point sources by facilities under...