Failure Mode Analyses of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened in Flexure with Externally Bonded Fiber-Reinforced Polymers
Publication: Journal of Composites for Construction
Volume 8, Issue 2
Abstract
As existing structures age or are required to meet the changing demands on our civil infrastructure, poststrengthening and retrofitting are inevitable. A relatively recent technique to strengthen reinforced concrete (RC) beams in flexure uses fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) strips or sheets glued to the tension side of the beam. A number of researchers have reported that the failure mode of an FRP-strengthened RC beam can change from the desired ductile mode of an underreinforced beam to a brittle one. This paper analyzes the effects of this strengthening technique on the response and failure modes of a reference RC beam. A nonlinear RC beam element model with bond-slip between the concrete and the FRP plate is used to study how the failure mechanism of simply supported strengthened RC beams is affected by the following parameters: plate length, plate width, plate stiffness, and loading type. The beam geometry is kept constant. The parametric studies confirm the experimentally observed results according to which the most commonly observed failure modes due to loss of composite actions are affected by the plate geometric and material properties. In addition, distributed loads (difficult to apply in an experimental test) may not be as sensitive to plate debonding in the region of maximum bending moment as are beams subjected to point loads.
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Received: Jul 9, 2002
Accepted: Oct 7, 2002
Published online: Mar 15, 2004
Published in print: Apr 2004
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