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An experimental investigation of the flexural strengthening of preloaded self-compacted RC beams using CFRP sheets and laminates composites

  • Lattif, Youssef (Department of Structural Engineering, Zagazig University) ;
  • Hamdy, Osman (Department of Civil Engineering, Zagazig Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology)
  • Received : 2021.11.20
  • Accepted : 2022.04.06
  • Published : 2022.04.25
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Abstract

This paper performs an experimental study on the flexural behavior of preloaded reinforced self-compacted concrete beams strengthened with carbon fiber reinforced polymers CFRP. A group of six preloaded strengthened beams was investigated along with one unstrengthened beam used as a reference beam RB. All beams have the same dimensions and reinforcement details: three beams are strengthened with CFRP laminates against flexural failure and three beams are strengthened with CFRP sheets. For simulating actual conditions, the beams are loaded before strengthening. Then, after strengthening, the beams are tested for flexural strength using 4-point loads where cracked and ultimate load and failure mode, along with load-deflection relation are recorded. To study the different configurations of strengthening, one layer, two layers, and U-wrap formation of laminates and sheets are considered. The results show that strengthing the RC beams using CFRP is an effective method to increase the beam's capacity by 47% up to 153% where deflection is reduced by 5%-80%. So, the beams strengthened with CFRP laminates have higher load capacity and lower ductility in comparison with the beams strengthened with CFRP sheets.

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