Abstract
Bonding fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) has been commonly used to improve the seismic behavior of circular reinforced concrete (RC) columns in engineering practice. However, FRP jackets have a significant stress hysteresis effect in this strengthening method, and pre-tensioning the FRP can overcome this problem. This paper presents test results of 25 circular RC columns strengthened with pre-stressed FRP strips under low cyclic loading. The pre-stressing of the FRP strips, types of FRP strips and longitudinal reinforcement, axial load ratio, pre-damage degree and surface treatments of the specimens are considered as the primary factors in the tests. According to the failure modes and hysteresis curves of the specimens, these factors are analyzed to investigate their effect on bearing capacity, ductility, hysteretic behavior, energy dissipation capacity and other important seismic behaviors. The results show that the initial lateral confined stress provided by pre-stressed FRP strips can effectively inhibit the emergence and development of diagonal shear cracks, and change the failure modes of specimens from brittle shear failure to bending or bending-shear failure with better ductility. As a result, the bearing capacity, ductility, energy dissipation capacity and deformation capacity of the strengthened specimens are all significantly improved.
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Supported by: National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51178029; the State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering at Tongji University under Grant No. SLDRCE08-MB-01
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Zhou, C., Lu, X., Li, H. et al. Experimental study on seismic behavior of circular RC columns strengthened with pre-stressed FRP strips. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 12, 625–642 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-013-0202-0
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