• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.145-148
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• 2006

Near surface mounted (NSM) is a recent strengthening technique based on bonding fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) bars (rods and laminate strips), the use of NSM FRP bars is Emerging as a promising technology for increasing flexural strength of deficient concrete. In order for this technique to perform effectively, the structural behaviour of RC element strengthened with NSM FRP bars to be fully characterized. Totally, 10 beams were tested using symmetrical two-point loads test. The parameters examined under the beam test were a diffrent type of strengthening length.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.125-133
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• 2010

Researches and studies which have been conducted so far on external confinement of long span concrete columns have mainly concentrated on concentric loading. But, long span bridge concrete columns over the sea are mainly subjected to concentrated axial load, and at the same time lange amount of moment by eccentric load. This paper experimentally investigates the performance of externally confined high-strength concrete columns subjected to loading mechanism and evaluates the effectiveness of two confinement materials carbon fibre and high performance glass fibre. Twelve short columns with the same dimensions were cast and tested Six columns were reinforced with hoop bars, the remaining six columns were reinforced with spiral bars and wrapped with three layers of carbon failure and high performance glass FRP sheets. Test variables considered were the shape of internal reinforcement and strengthening materials according to loading location. The experimental results showed that eccentric load could obviously lower down the maximum failure load of FRP-confined concrete columns, compared with the columns under concentric load. And compared with the carbon FRP-confined reinforced concrete columns, high performance glass FRP-confined columns displayed a higher load capacity and ductility, when tested both concentrically and eccentrically.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.323-326
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• 2009

콘크리트의 보강재로 높은 인장 강도와 비부식성, 비자기성, 비전기성 등의 장점을 갖는 FRP의 사용에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 하지만 FRP가 갖는 낮은 탄성계수와 취성적 성질로 인해 기존 설계방법을 적용하기에는 문제가 있다. 본 연구에서는 보강비 변화에 따른 AFRP 보강 콘크리트 보의 구조 실험을 수행하여 FRP 보강근을 사용한 콘크리트 부재의 휨 성능 연구에 대한 기초적 자료를 제공하고자 하였다. 각 실험체의 결과 데이터를 비교 분석한 결과 균형보강비를 기준으로 저보강 실험체는 FRP의 파단에 의해 급격한 파괴양상을 보인 반면에, 과보강 실험체는 콘크리트가 압괴하는 파괴 징후를 보이며 파괴에 도달하였다. FRP 보강근을 사용한 보 부재의 설계에 균형보강 이상의 설계가 요구되며, 과보강의 경우 고강도 콘크리트의 사용이 요구되는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.445-448
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• 2010

본 연구는 섬유 보강 폴리머(Fiber Reinforced Polymers, 이하 FRP) bar로 보강된 콘크리트 깊은 보의 전단강도를 평가하기 위하여 전단경간비, 보강비, 주근의 종류를 변수로 총 6개의 실험체에 대한 전단 실험을 수행하였다. 전단실험을 토대로 FRP bar로 보강된 콘크리트 깊은보의 균열 및 처짐에 대한 거동 조사를 수행하였으며, ACI 318-08의 스트럿-타이 모델을 이용한 전단강도와 아치작용을 고려한 기존 제안식에 의한 전단강도를 비교 평가하였다. 그 결과, FRP bar로 보강한 실험체와 철근으로 보강한 실험체는 상이한 전단거동을 보였으며, FRP bar로 보강한 경우의 전단강도가 철근으로 보강한 경우보다 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 전단강도 산정에 있어서는 ACI 318-08의 스트럿-타이 모델을 이용한 방법이 기존 제안식에 의한 방법보다 상대적으로 정확했다.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.18-26
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• 2012

Recently, research about Near-Surface-Mounted Rertofit (NSMR) method has been being widely performed as a method for retrofit of RC structure using FRP. This method requires additional work to make grooves during retrofit but makes it possible to improve retrofit effect and reduce the attack by environment. In this paper, the retrofit effect of NSMR method, especially the method using FRP plate instead of bar is investigated through experiment. Six RC beams were made and retrofitted using by FRP plate following the planned methods; Surface-Bonding Retrofit (SBR), NSMR without debonding region and NSMR with debonding region. Flexural capacity of all specimens was evaluated by beam test with simple support condition. As a result, NSMR method with FRP plate had more improved structural capacity than SBR method. The calculation process of ACI 440-2R can be used to predict the member retrofitted by NSMR with FRP plate with consideration on the three anchorage failure mechanism.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.256-262
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to define the shear reinforcing effect of Near-Surface-Mounted (NSM) FRP strips in reinforced concrete (RC) member through a test. Three T shaped RC beams were made and two of them were strengthened with NSM FRP strips for increase shear strength. And those were tested to find the shear strengthening effect. In the test, two case of shear strengthening methods were considered such as 1) with NSM FRP strips having full embedded length and 2) with NSM FRP strips having some what short embedded length and additional externally bonded FRP sheet. As a result, the shear strengthening effect could be obtained when the NSM FRP strips are embedded to have full length up to the bottom of slab. However the shear strength was not increased in the case of having somewhat short embedded length of NSM FRP strips even additional EB sheet was enhanced.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.4A
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• pp.597-604
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• 2006

Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) is a relatively new material in the bridge construction. With high strength to weight ratios, excellent durability, and low life-cycle costs of FRP, FRP bridge decks can offer a low dead load, reduced maintenance, and long service life. Due to the lightweight of FRP, if existing concrete decks can be replaced with the FRP decks, the load carrying capacity of superstructure can be increased without strengthening of girders. In this study, we have conducted an experiment on 7 cases of connection conditions with steel girder by using bolts considering a rational and economical method of connection and compared with the results of FEM analysis. From the experimental result, if the bolts are strong enough to resist shear force between the FRP bridge deck and the steel girder, it will be structurally secure to use the zigzag method.

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.257-271
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• 2011

The analysis of interfacial stresses in structural component has been the subject of several investigations but it still requires more effort and studies. In this study a general three-dimensional interface element has been formulated for stress and displacement analyses in the interfacial area between two adjacent plate bending element and brick element. Interface element has 16 nodes with 5 degrees of freedom (DOF) in each node adjacent to plate bending element and 3 DOF in each node adjacent to brick element. The interface element has ability to transfer three translations from each side of interface element and two rotations in the side adjacent to the plate element. Stiffness matrix of this element was formulated and implemented in three-dimensional finite element code. Application of this element to the reinforced concrete (RC) beam strengthened with fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) including variation of deflection, slip between plate and concrete, normal and shear stresses distributions in FRP plates have been verified using experimental and numerical work of strengthened RC beams carried out by some researchers. The results show that this interface element is effective and can be used for structural component with these types of interface elements.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.433-441
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• 2019

The aim of this research is reinforcing of concrete with variety of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) configurations and investigates the load capacity and ductility of these connections using an experimental investigation. Six scaled-down RC exterior joints were tested under moderately monotonic loads. The results show that, the shape of the FRP had a different effect on the joint capacity and the connection ductility coefficient. The greatest effect on increasing the ductility factor was seen in the sample where two reinforcement plates were used on both sides of the beam web (RCS5 sample). For the sample with the presence of FRP plates at the top and bottom of the beam (RCS3 sample), the ductility factor was reduced even the load capacity of this sample increased. Except for the RCS3 sample, the rest of the samples exhibited an increase in the ductility factor due to the FRP reinforcement.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.161-184
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• 2021

Strengthening of reinforced concrete beams with externally bonded fiber reinforced polymer plates/sheets technique has become widespread in the last two decades. Although a great deal of research has been conducted on simply supported RC beams, a few studies have been carried out on continuous beams strengthened with FRP composites. This paper presents a simple uniaxial nonlinear analytical model that is able to accurately estimate the load carrying capacity and the behaviour of damaged RC continuous beams flexural strengthened with externally bonded prestressed composite plates on both of the upper and lower fibers, taking into account the thermal load. The model is based on equilibrium and deformations compatibility requirements in and all parts of the strengthened beam, i.e., the damaged concrete beam, the FRP plate and the adhesive layer. The flexural analysis results and analytical predictions for the prestressed composite strengthened damaged RC continuous beams were compared and showed very good agreement in terms of the debonding load, yield load, and ultimate load. The use of composite materials increased the ultimate load capacity compared with the non strengthened beams. The major objective of the current model is to help engineers' model FRP strengthened RC continuous beams in a simple manner. Finally, this research is helpful for the understanding on mechanical behaviour of the interface and design of the FRP-damaged RC hybrid structures.