Advances in FRP Composites in Civil Engineering pp 344-347 | Cite as
Fatigue-Loading Effect on RC Beams Strengthened with Externally Bonded FRP
Abstract
External bonding of fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) on concrete beams is particularly attractive for the strengthening of civil engineering structures in order to increase their mechanical resistance. The composite material is generally bonded on the tensile part of the beam. In order to design these bonded reinforcements, an iterative computational method based on section equilibrium and material properties (concrete, steel, adhesive and composite) has been developed: this method can be extended to describe the fatigue behavior of RC beams. This paper focuses on the damage behavior of concrete structures subjected to fatigue loading. A specific modeling coupled with an experimental investigation on large-scale beams made it possible to compare the theoretical and experimental fatigue behaviors of RC beams with and without composite reinforcements Results showed that the beam deflection and the strain in each material could be calculated with a sufficient accuracy, so that the fatigue behavior of the FRP strengthened beams was correctly estimated by the model.
Keywords
Failure Load Fatigue Behavior Composite Plate Fiber Reinforce Polymer Concrete BeamPreview
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