Strengthening RC Beams in Flexure Using New Hybrid FRP Sheet/Ductile Anchor System
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Abstract
This paper explores a new hybrid fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) sheet/ductile anchor system for rehabilitation of reinforced concrete (RC) beams. The advantages of the proposed strengthening method is that it overcomes the problem of low ductility that is associated with brittle failure mode in conventional methods of strengthening beams using epoxy-bonded FRP sheets. The proposed system leads to a ductile failure mode by triggering yielding to occur in a steel anchor system (steel links) rather than by rupture or debonding of FRP sheets, which is sudden in nature. Four half-scale RC T-beams were tested under four-point bending. Three retrofitted beams were strengthened using one layer of carbon FRP sheet. The results of the two beams that were strengthened with the new hybrid FRP sheet/ductile anchor system were compared with the results from the beam strengthened with conventional FRP bonding method and the control beam. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed strengthening system in increasing flexural capacity and ductility of RC beams.
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OpenAlex topics: Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete · Concrete Corrosion and Durability · Innovative concrete reinforcement materials
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Associate Professor, Dept. of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia Univ., Montréal, Québec, Canada H3G 1M8.
MASc Graduate Student, Dept. of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia Univ., Montréal, Québec, Canada H3G 1M8.
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