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Behaviour of hybrid fibre reinforced concrete beams strengthened with GFRP laminates

  • Ibrahim, S. Syed (Department of Civil Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College) ;
  • Eswari, S. (Department of Civil Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College) ;
  • Sundararajan, T. (Department of Civil Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College)
  • Received : 2016.05.31
  • Accepted : 2018.03.27
  • Published : 2018.06.10
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Abstract

This study aims to investigate the flexural behaviour of glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) laminated hybrid fibre reinforced concrete (HFRC) beams. The flexural and ductility performance of GFRP laminated HFRC beams having different proportions of polyolefin and steel fibres with 1.0% of total volume fraction were investigated. The parameters of this investigation included: load and deflection at first crack, yield, and ultimate stages, ductility and crack width. A total of seven beams of $150{\times}250mm$ in cross-section were tested in the laboratory over an effective span of 2800 mm. One reinforced concrete (RC) beam without any internal or external GFRP was taken as the reference beam. Of the remaining six beams, one beam was strengthened with GFRP, one beam with 100% steel fibres was strengthened with GFRP and four beams, each with different volume proportions of polyolefin and steel fibres (20:80, 30:70, 40:60, 50:50) were strengthened with GFRP. All the above beams were tested until failure. The experimental results show that a fibre volume proportion of 40:60 (polyolefin-steel) has significantly improved the overall performance of the tested beams.

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