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Prestressed CFRP Fabrics for Flexural Strengthening of Concrete Beams with an Easy Prestressing Technique

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It is proposed to use prestressed CFRP plates for strengthening in order to prevent their debonding and thus to increase their strengthening efficiency. For this purpose, and easy-to-use piece of equipment was created. To determine the effectiveness of this method, an experimental program was carried out, and the effect of prestressed CFRP on the behavior and ultimate strength of reinforced concrete beams was examined in threepoint bending tests. A remarkable increase in their strength with debonding was seen for every specimen to which a prestressed CFRP plate had been applied.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey

    G. Şakar & H. M. Tanarslan

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Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 745-752 , July-August, 2014.

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Şakar, G., Tanarslan, H.M. Prestressed CFRP Fabrics for Flexural Strengthening of Concrete Beams with an Easy Prestressing Technique. Mech Compos Mater 50, 537–542 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11029-014-9440-0

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