Fiber Reinforced Plastics/Composites ›› 2019, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (10): 75-81.

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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SHEAR BEHAVIOUR OF REINFORCEDCONCRETE DAMAGED BEAMS REINFORCED BY AFRP

XING Li-li, KONG Xiang-qing*, HAN Fei, HE Wen-chang   

  1. College of Civil & Architectural Engineering, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou 121001, China
  • Received:2019-01-14 Online:2019-10-28 Published:2019-10-28

Abstract: The experimental study on the shear behaviour of seven concrete damaged beams reinforced by aramid fiber reinforced composite (AFRP), the influence of different levels of damage, FRP strips spacing and different types of FRP on shear capacity were investigated. The characteristic loads, failure modes, beams of load-deflection curves, stirrups and FRP of load-strain curves were analyzed, and compared with reinforced concrete beam without FRP sheets during experimental study. The test result indicated that AFRP reinforcement technology can effectively improve the shear capacity of reinforced concrete beams. Different degrees of damage have a great influence on the reinforced concrete damaged beams strengthened by AFRP, and increasing level of damage can reduce the reinforcement effect. When the level damage reaches the ultimate load of the concrete beam without FRP 70% and above, the improvement effect of the shear capacity of FRP reinforced concrete beam is not obvious, which even can′t reach the ultimate shear capacity of the reinforced concrete beam without FRP sheets. And it is found that the smaller the spacing of the FRP strips, the better the reinforcement effect. In addition, it is found that the shear capacity of reinforced concrete beams with AFRP is slightly higher compared with the test result of the reinforced concrete beam with BFRP. According to the test results, the shear capacity formula of reinforced concrete damaged beams strengthened with FRP is obtained, and it showed good agreement with the experimental results.

Key words: AFRP, strengthening, reinforced concrete beam, degree of damage, shear behaviour

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