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The paper is focused to the properties of cementitious composites such as: mortar, ordinary concrete and self-compacting concrete made by means of recycled rubber granulate as a partial replacement for commonly used aggregate. This paper, together with the results of authors' own experimental research on rubberized cementitious composites is presented in detail. The comprehensive conclusion suggests that this type of material can be successfully applied in many fields of engineering practice, thanks to its sustainability, elasticity and durability.

The paper is focused to the properties of cementitious composites such as: mortar, ordinary concrete and self-compacting concrete made by means of recycled rubber granulate as a partial replacement for commonly used aggregate. This paper, together with the results of authors' own experimental research on rubberized cementitious composites is presented in detail. The comprehensive conclusion suggests that this type of material can be successfully applied in many fields of engineering practice, thanks to its sustainability, elasticity and durability.

Process planning and scheduling are two of the most important manufacturing functions which are usually performed sequentially in traditional approaches. Considering the fact that these functions are usually complementary, it is necessary to integrate them so as to improve performance of a manufacturing system. This paper presents implementation of novel nature-inspired Ant Lion Optimization (ALO) algorithm for solving this combinatorial optimization problem effectively. As the ALO algorithm mimics the intelligent behavior of antlions in hunting ants, the main steps of hunting prey, its mathematical modeling, and optimization procedure for integration of process planning and scheduling is proposed. The algorithm is implemented in Matlab environment and run on the 3.10 GHz processor with 2 GBs of RAM memory. Experimental results show applicability of the proposed approach in solving integrated process planning and scheduling problem.

Market growth and mass customization cause a need for a change in traditional manufacturing. Decentralized decision making and integration of process planning is necessary in order to become concurrent in the market. The paper presents decentralized decision making methodology using multi-agent systems. The model is used for integrated process planning and scheduling based on the minimum processing time under dynamic change of the environment. Two types of disturbance are used to represent the change: part arrival and machine breakdown. The proposed model comprises part agent, job agent, machine agent and optimization agent. Comparative analysis is conducted using simulation in AnyLogic software in order to verify the proposed approach.

This paper presents the procedure for stability analysis of frames in elastic-plastic domain using the concept of the tangent modulus. When the buckling of structure occurs in plastic domain, it is necessary to replace the constant modulus of elasticity E with the tangent modulus Et. Tangent modulus is stress dependent function and takes into account the changes of the member stiffness in the inelastic range. Formulation of the corresponding stiffness matrices is based upon the solution of the equation of bending of the beam according to the second order theory. Numerical analysis was performed using the code ALIN, developed in the C++ programming language.

Applications of fly ash in building industry have very important and relevant problems of origin which are discussed in this paper. Authors have performed tests on mortar, plain concrete and Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) specimens. Experiments showed satisfactory results concerning possible application of fly ash as admixture for cementitious composites. Experimental research was conducted in the Laboratory for materials at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade.

Applications of fly ash in building industry have very important and relevant problems of origin which are discussed in this paper. Authors have performed tests on mortar, plain concrete and Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) specimens. Experiments showed satisfactory results concerning possible application of fly ash as admixture for cementitious composites. Experimental research was conducted in the Laboratory for materials at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade.