Numerical Modeling of FRP Shear-Strengthened Reinforced Concrete Beams
- 1 December 2007
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Composites for Construction
- Vol. 11 (6), 640-649
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)1090-0268(2007)11:6(640)
Abstract
An attractive technique for the shear strengthening of reinforced concrete beams is to provide additional web reinforcement in the form of externally bonded fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) sheets. So far, theoretical studies concerning the FRP shear strengthening of reinforced concrete members have been rather limited. Moreover, the numerical analyses presented to date have not effectively simulated the interfacial behavior between the bonded FRP and concrete. The analysis presented here aims to capture the three-dimensional and nonlinear behavior of the concrete, as well as accurately model the bond–slip interfacial behavior. The finite-element model is applied to various strengthening strategies; namely, beams with vertical and inclined side-bonded FRP sheets, U-wrap FRP strengthening configurations, as well as anchored FRP sheets. The proposed numerical analysis is validated against published experimental results. Comparisons between the numerical predictions and test results show excellent agreement. T...Keywords
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