Strengthening of steel structures with fiber-reinforced polymer composites

JG Teng, T Yu, D Fernando - Journal of constructional steel research, 2012 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have gradually
gained wide acceptance in civil engineering applications due to their unique advantages …

Hybrid and adhesively bonded joints with dissimilar adherends: a critical review

A Yousefi Kanani, S Green, X Hou… - Journal of Adhesion …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reviews the reported literature on dissimilar (non-matched adherend) adhesively
bonded joints (ABJs), currently used bonding processes, and the mechanisms by which …

Strengthening of a 19th-century roadway metallic bridge using nonprestressed bonded and prestressed unbonded CFRP plates

A Hosseini, E Ghafoori, R Al-Mahaidi, XL Zhao… - … and Building Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper summarizes the strengthening of a historically significant 122-year-old roadway
metallic bridge using nonprestressed bonded carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) …

[HTML][HTML] Durability of CFRP/steel joints under cyclic wet-dry and freeze-thaw conditions

M Heshmati, R Haghani, M Al-Emrani - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Strengthening of steel structures with adhesively bonded carbon fibre reinforced polymer
(CFRP) materials have become increasingly popular in the last decade. However …

On the strength prediction of adhesively bonded FRP-steel joints using cohesive zone modelling

M Heshmati, R Haghani, M Al-Emrani… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
The variety of failure modes that are likely to occur in fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP)/steel
joints used in the construction industry adds to the complexity associated with the design of …

An approach for predicting fatigue life of CFRP retrofitted metallic structural details

A Mohabeddine, J Correia, PA Montenegro… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new approach to estimate the fatigue life of metallic details retrofitted
with bonded CFRP patch. Existing phenomenological and analytical methods to predict the …

[HTML][HTML] Bond behavior of FRP carbon plates externally bonded over steel and concrete elements: Experimental outcomes and numerical investigations

F Ceroni, M Ianniciello, M Pecce - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
The paper is firstly aimed to furnish a review of the current knowledge about the bond
behavior of Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP)-steel joints with reference to: a) experimental …

Effect of temperature variation on bond characteristics between CFRP and steel plate

S Li, T Zhu, Y Lu, X Li - International Journal of Polymer Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, application of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite materials
in the strengthening of existing reinforced concrete structures has gained widespread …

Experimental testing on CFRP strengthened thin steel plates under shear loading

MK Poul, F Nateghi-Alahi, XL Zhao - Thin-walled structures, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents an experimental study on thin steel plates strengthened by CFRP layers
under shear loading. A series of laboratory tests were conducted on scaled one-story steel …

A nonlinear analytical model for predicting bond behavior of FRP-to-concrete/steel substrate joints subjected to temperature variations

K Dong, J Hao, P Li, C Zhong - Construction and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The effective interfacial stress transfer mechanism plays an important role in the mechanical
performance of externally bonded fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) strengthened structures …