- Title
- Flexural response of FRP-strengthened lightweight RC beams: hybrid bond efficiency of L‐shape ribbed bars and NSM technique
- Creator
- Tahmouresi, Behzad; Momeninejad, Kasra; Mohseni, Ehsan
- Relation
- Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Vol. 22, Issue 2, no. 95
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43452-022-00410-y
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- This paper presents the results of an experimental study on employing near surface mounted (NSM) fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcement technique, and L‐shape ribbed bars, for flexural strengthening of lightweight reinforced concrete (RC) beams. 18 RC beams including 14 lightweight RC beams and four normal-weight concrete beams were designed. The beams were strengthened with glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars and carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminate in bending tests. Test parameters included: (1) different FRP materials (glass bars and carbon sheets), (2) longitudinal steel reinforcement ratio, and (3) type of strengthening technique used (NSM reinforcement or hybrid). The ultimate tensile strength, deflection, compressive and tensile strain of concrete, and failure mode of the beams were examined under four-point flexural test. Results showed that the ultimate strength of all RC beams increased between 33 and 105% compared to the control beam. The ultimate strength of beams reinforced with CFRP in the mid-span region was 10% higher than that of beams strengthened at both ends, although the former exhibited 28% lower ultimate deflection. The ultimate strength and deflection of RC beams strengthened with combined steel reinforcing bars and GFRP bars were 10% and 108% higher, respectively, compared to those of RC beams strengthened with GFRP bars only. Hybrid L‐shape ribbed bars beams showed a considerably higher ductility (up to 170% increase in the ultimate deflection) compared to other beams. The comparison of the experimental results of the ultimate strength of the beams with ACI440-2R guidelines indicated a reasonable and conservative prediction of the code expression.
- Subject
- glass fiber-reinforced polymer; carbon fber-reinforced polymer; lightweight rc beams; flexural strength; near-surface mounted; hybrid technique
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1482766
- Identifier
- uon:51019
- Identifier
- ISSN:1644-9665
- Rights
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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