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Basalt fiber reinforced polymer grids as an external reinforcement for reinforced concrete structures

مؤلف البحث
Nageh Mohammed Ali, Xin Wang, Zhishen Wu, and Ahmed Yehia Hassanein.
المشارك في البحث
سنة البحث
2015
مجلة البحث
Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites
الناشر
sage
عدد البحث
34(19)
تصنيف البحث
1
صفحات البحث
1-13
موقع البحث
http://jrp.sagepub.com/content/34/19/1615.abstract
ملخص البحث

This paper presents series of experimental studies on newly developed basalt fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) grids forthe flexural strengthening of reinforced concrete beams. The study includes tensile behavior of the basalt FRP grids withthree types of thickness, bonding behavior between the basalt FRP grids and the concrete with epoxy resin, and flexuralbehavior of the reinforced concrete beams strengthened with basalt FRP grids. The results revealed that the modulus ofelasticity of the basalt FRP grids ranged between 40 and 43 GPa, and their tensile strength ranged between 815 and931 MPa. The bond stress–slip behavior of the basalt FRP grids and concrete exhibited a ductile failure manner incomparison to that of FRP sheets and concrete; the bond strength of the tested basalt FRP grids was in the range of3.26–6.06 MPa, and its slip at peak ranged between 0.15 and 0.4 mm. Beams strengthened with basalt FRP grids failed bycrushing of compressive concrete or fiber reinforced polymer rupture and no debonding failure was observed for any ofthe tested beams.