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http://dx.doi.org/10.4334/JKCI.2007.19.6.763

Behaviour of One-Way Concrete Slabs Reinforced with Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Bars  

Seo, Dae-Won (Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University)
Han, Byum-Seok (Sustainable Building Research Center, Hanyang University)
Shin, Sung-Woo (Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute / v.19, no.6, 2007 , pp. 763-771 More about this Journal
Abstract
Over the last few decades, many researches have been conducted in order to find solution to the problem of corrosion in steel reinforced concrete. As a result, methods such as the use of stainless steel bars, epoxy coatings, and concrete additives, etc., have been tried. While effective in some situations, such remedies may still be unable to completely eliminate the problems of steel corrosion. Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) elements are appealing as reinforcement due to some material properties such as high tensile strength, low density, and noncorrosive. However, due to the generally lower modulus of elasticity of FRP in comparison with the steel and the linear behavior of FRP, certain aspects of the structural behavior of RC members reinforced with FRP may be substantially different from similar elements reinforced with steel reinforcement. This paper presents the flexural behavior of one-way concrete slabs reinforced with FRP bars. They were simply supported and tested in the laboratory under static loading conditions to investigate their crack pattern and width, deflections, strains and mode of failure. The experimental results shows that behavior of the FRP reinforced slabs was bilinearly elastic until failure. Also, the results show that the FRP overreinforced concrete beams in this study can be safe for design in terms of deformability.
Keywords
reinforced concrete; fiber reinforced polymers (FRP); one-way concrete slabs; structural behavior; FRP bars;
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