Analysis of Behaviors of Concrete Strengthened with FRP Sheets and Steel Fibers Under Low-Velocity Impact Loading

Behaviour of FRP strengthened concrete columns under eccentric compression loading

This paper presents results of testing eccentrically loaded columns externally wrapped with two types of materials. Six cylindrical (205 mm diameter and 925 mm height) plain columns were cast and tested. Half of the columns were wrapped with GFRP and the other half with CFRP. All columns were tested by applying an axial load at 50 mm eccentricity. In each group (GFRP or CFRP wrapped) of columns...

Analysis of Concrete Bridge Girders Strengthened with Frp Laminates under Service and Extreme Loading Conditions

The project is a continuation from fiscal year 2004-2005. Previous work aimed at developing new analytical tools for analysis of RC beams strengthened with FRP laminates. The models were used to analyze several test specimens of RC beams and to investigate the corresponding failure mode, and whether it is due to CFRP fracture, debonding, or concrete crushing. Current work focused on using the e...

Structural behaviour of RC beams externally strengthened with FRP sheets under fatigue and monotonic loading

This paper presents experimental research on the fatigue and post-fatigue static behaviour of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with glass or carbon fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) sheets placed either vertically or obliquely. All beams for fatigue tests were subjected to four-point bending for one million cycles with a frequency of 5 Hz. The results show that the FRP sheets can be used to ...

Bonding and Anchoring Characterization between Frp Sheets, Concrete, and Viscoelastic Layers under Static and Dynamic Loading

An innovative concept for normalizing the multiple seismic performance objectives of retrofitted structures was recently introduced by the authors. Referred to as a damping-enhanced strengthening, this integrated damping and strengthening strategy included the bonding component between FRP sheets and viscoelastic layers as well as the anchoring component of FRP sheets into concrete. Although an...

Behaviour of FRP wrapped circular concrete columns under eccentric loading