This study deals with the yielding behavior and strain aging properties of three bake hardening steels with dualphase microstructure, fabricated by varying the annealing temperature. Bake hardening and aging tests are performed to examine the correlation of martensite volume fraction with yielding behavior and strain aging properties of the bake hardening steels with dual-phase microstructure. The volume fraction of martensite increases with increasing annealing temperature. Roomtemperature tensile test results show that the yielding behavior changes from discontinuous-type to continuous-type with increasing volume fraction of martensite due to higher mobile dislocation density. According to the bake hardening and aging tests, the specimen with the highest fraction of martensite exhibited high bake hardening with low aging index because solute carbon atoms in ferrite and martensite effectively diffuse to dislocations during the bake hardening test, while in the aging test they diffuse at only ferrite due to lower aging temperature.

This experimental study investigates the influence on the tensile behavior of strain-hardening cement composite (SHCC) with HR and SWP Shrinkage Reducing Admixture (SRA). SRA can also improve the tensile strength and multiple cracks of SHCC material used in this study.

This experimental study investigates the influence on the flexural behavior of strain-hardening cement composite (SHCC) with HR and SWP Shrinkage Reducing Admixture (SRA). SRA can also improve flexural strengths and flexural toughness.

This experimental study examines the test results on the flexural behavior of strain-hardening cement composite (SHCC) with two types of Shrinkage Reducing Admixture (SRA). An influence of SRA on the flexural behaviors of SHCC mixes was observed.

The objective of this study is to investigate the failure modes of steel coupling beam-wall connection. Test variable of this study is types of material used, concrete and with pseudo strain hardening cementitious composites (PSH2C). The results showed that Specimen PSH2C-SB with longer embedment length of steel coupling beam exhibits good seismic performance than Specimen HCWS-SB.