Compressive Membrane Action in FRP-strengthened Concrete Beams
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Yihua Zeng
Robby Caspeele 
Luc Taerwe |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Elegance in structures, Nara, Japan, 13-15 May 2015 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Nara 2015 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 278-279 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 5 | ||||
| Year: | 2015 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137815815774980 | ||||
| Abstract: |
A comparison of compressive membrane action (CMA) between standard reinforced concrete (RC) members and RC members strengthened with Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) is performed. The comparison is based on an extension of Park and Gamble's model and quantified by defining an enhancement factor. Results indicate that the CMA effect decreases with increasing steel reinforcement for RC beams whereas this conclusion only holds for the effect of top steel reinforcement in case of FRP-strengthened RC beams. Results also show that the CMA effect increases with increasing concrete strength and is not significantly affected by span-to-depth ratio for both beam systems. |
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| Keywords: |
reinforced concrete fibre reinforced polymers Compressive membrane action
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