Strengthen of Reinforced Concrete Beam Using Hybrid-Beams of Angle Type
This In paper In this research a experimental and analytical study were performed to investigate strengthening efficiency of a hybrid material beam developed with the goal of simultaneously increasing the flexural stiffness and strength of aging RC structures. A composite beam consisted of two materials ; aluminum, GFRP. The experimental investigation consisted of testing 3 simply supported full-scale concrete beams. As test variables, the cross-sectional type of hybrid material beam(BE-2, SH-2).
Test results show that the stiffness and load capacity of all specimens strengthened with hybrid material beam increased compared with unstrengthened specimens. A hybrid material beam of BE-2 was more efficient for stiffness increase than a un non-strengthened beam of U-B. A damage by power pin install reduce flexural load-carry capacity to 7∼10%. Specimens with high reinforcement raito had larg load-carry capacity than specimens with low reinforcement ratio and had small load-carry increase ratio compare with theoretical load-carry capacity of non-strengthen.