This paper presents an experimental investigation on the flexural behavior of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) beams prestressed with external carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) tendons. A total eight T-shaped beam specimens were fabricated and tested, effects effective prestressing stress, partial ratio, deviated angle, loading condition analyzed. The results indicate that fully expe...

Shape, thickness and stacking sequence optimisation of a damage tolerant hybrid (GFRP-CFRP) composite laminate is performed using the commercial Optistruct solver. The results study are compared to both benchmark non-damage CFRP (without protective surface GFRP plies known as type 1 laminate) traditionally optimised CFRP-GFRP (having X shape 2 laminate), designed tested in previous study. manuf...

Abstract Lightweight concrete (LWC) is one of the most important building materials nowadays. Many research studies were focused on LWC produced using lightweight aggregates. However, limited work was cited for polystyrene beads. In this study, beams strengthened with carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) and glass (GFRP) experimentally tested to investigate improvement in their flexural shear...

The introduction of carbon-fibre reinforced plastics in load bearing automotive structures provides a great potential to reduce vehicle weight and fuel consumption. To enable the manufacture and assembly of composite structural parts, reliable and cost-effective joining technologies must be developed. This thesis addresses several aspects of joining and load introduction in carbon-fibre reinfor...

The quasistatic failure of composite-aluminium bolted joints is investigated experimentally using the stereo Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique. Single-shear, two-bolt lap made carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates and aluminium plates are subjected to tensile load while being monitored stereo-DIC. measured displacements processed by removing outliers Grubbs test reducing nois...