Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Columns Strengthened with Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Sheet
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 128, Issue 12
Abstract
Seven specimens were tested to investigate the shear strength of reinforced concrete (RC) columns strengthened by wrapping with a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic sheet. All specimens were tested under lateral reversal cyclic loading and a constant axial load. The main parameters considered were the carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) sheet amount, the shear span/depth ratio, and the axial load ratio. Many strain gauges were attached to the CFRP sheet to obtain its shear contribution. It was found that the shear behavior of the RC part of the strengthened column was almost the same as that of the unstrengthened one. The parameters were found to have an influence on the shear contribution of the CFRP sheet, which could be explained by truss-arch shear resistance mechanism. A simple superposition method is suggested to calculate the shear strength of the strengthened column, in which a shear coefficient (ν) is proposed to evaluate the shear contribution of the CFRP sheet based on the test results. The calculated results of suggested method are shown to be in reasonable agreement with test ones.
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Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 128 • Issue 12 • December 2002
Pages: 1527 - 1534
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Copyright © 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Mar 10, 2000
Accepted: Mar 4, 2002
Published online: Nov 15, 2002
Published in print: Dec 2002
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