Abstract Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) is commonly used in structural repair and strengthening due to its high tensile strength, non-corrosive lightweight. On the other side FRP relatively brittle compared steel. This study hybrid consisting of GFRP CFRP, by combining two type with different characteristic it be expected that more will fail first followed elastic one, therefore creating a sequ...

Extensive experimental and numerical studies have been conducted to understand the bond behaviour of FRP-concrete interfaces with assumption homogenous materials. This study is aimed at a better understanding effects concrete heterogeneity on behaviour, by combination experiments mesoscale modelling. FRP-mortar bonded joints were tested using four-point bending setup. The crack initiation propa...

A new type of washer with integrated pin structures was developed and presented in a previous study for the use mechanical joints fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) metal sheets. Thereby, pin-structured significantly increases load-bearing capacity mechanically joined FRP-metal combinations. To do so, FRP hole area is to be relieved by transferring occurring loads into laminate via structures. In ...

Recently, steel fibre reinforced polymers (SFRP) sheets have been introduced for the repair and rehabilitation of concrete structures. Few researchers studied the behaviour of the concrete columns wrapped with SFRP sheets; however, several critical parameters such as the cost and ductility effectiveness of the SFRP wrapped concrete columns have been lightly addressed. Thus, the main objective o...