Experimental Study of Pre-Stress Loss of Steel Structure Strengthened with Pre-Stressed CFRP Strips
Publication: International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2009
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This paper focuses on the experimental study on the pre-stress losses of pre-stressing CFRP plates bonded on damaged steel structures. Both pre-tensioned and post-tensioned members are theoretically and experimentally analyzed. The results show that, firstly the instantaneous pre-stress losses due to elastic deformations are up to 50% of the initial pre-stress for the steel plates strengthened with CFRP plate pre-stressed by the pre-tensioned method. The longer length of CFRP plate reduces the instantaneous pre-stress loss significantly. Because of the small value of the long-term pre-stress losses in the test, the approximate estimates of total pre-stress losses can be simplified as the instantaneous pre-stress losses with considering a safety factor. Secondly for the steel girders strengthened with pre-stressing CFRP plate by the post-tensioned method, the effective pre-stress of girder specimens are directly controlled by the anchorage set, and both the instantaneous and long-term pre-stress losses are slight. However the anchorage set with jacking system is rather complicated and difficult to design. From the view of pre-stress losses, the post-tensioned method is more effective than the pre-tensioned method.
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© 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Carbon fibers
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Fiber reinforced polymer
- Fibers
- Material mechanics
- Material properties
- Materials engineering
- Materials processing
- Plates
- Polymer
- Prestressing
- Steel plates
- Steel structures
- Strength of materials
- Structural behavior
- Structural engineering
- Structural members
- Structural strength
- Structural systems
- Structures (by type)
- Synthetic materials
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