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"When strengthening a building for earthquakes, the approach is to retain the existing structure to take vertical gravity loads, and add structure or reinforce existing structure to take the lateral – sideways – loads from earthquakes," says Dr Geoff Thomas from Victoria University of Wellington.
Nevertheless, when strengthening long-span members or members with limited access, labor, traffic, and equipment demands may hinder the use of continuous EB FRP.
Concrete cover separation is one of the premature debonding failure modes commonly observed when strengthening reinforced concrete (RC) beams that use externally bonded fibre-reinforced polymer (EB-FRP) become delaminated.
The optimal use of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) when strengthening timber beams loaded in bending involves considering placing the reinforcement on both the tension and the compression side, in order to utilise the ductile compression failure of the wood to the full.
However, the club were relatively frugal when strengthening the squad for the Premier League.
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This research focuses on studying the performance of precracked RC beams when strengthened with the SNSM method.
However, strength of damaged beams due to corrosion was restored to the undamaged state when strengthened with CFRP sheets.
Pre-cracked RC beams shear strengthened with NSM CFRP laminates have presented a load carrying capacity similar to that of the homologous beams that were uncracked when strengthened.
The unbroken girder when strengthened, produced a 30% reduction in deflection for the same moment while bending stiffness was increased by 30% from its initial un-strengthened state.
Experimental results demonstrated that the flexural ultimate load carrying capacity increased by 33%, 37% and 67% for the tested specimens with central, eccentric, and edge column, respectively, when strengthened using CFRP sheets.
