Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Columns Strengthened with Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Sheet
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Structural Engineering
- Vol. 128 (12) , 1527-1534
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9445(2002)128:12(1527)
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 cal...Keywords
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