Abstract
Recently, many strengthening methods are developed to repair damaged structures, when the original structure is under loading, which causes the difference of initial stresses between original member and bonded material. However, current design method or theory, which mostly depends on ultimately strength design, cannot account the difference of initial stresses between members, and it disregards the reduction of nominal strength. In this study, a new strengthening design theory and the amount of strengthening which can account the difference of initial stresses are developed, and applied to the case when a structure in service is repaired. The results show that the amount of strengthening material depends on the status of damages of structure, and the nominal strength is reduced depending on the degree of damages.
