Shear wall systems behave as individual wall because of openings like window and elevator cage. When coupling beams are installed in shear walls, they will have high strength and stiffness so that be less damaged by lateral loads like earthquake. However, coupling beam is difficult construction method. And arranging reinforcement of slender coupling beams are especially hard. It is because the details of coupling beam provided by ACI 318 are complex. In this paper, experiments were conducted using coupling beams with 3.5 aspect ratio to improve the details of slender coupling beams provided by ACI 318. Two specimens were proposed for this study. One specimen applied with bundled diagonally reinforcement only. Another specimen applied both bundled diagonally reinforcement and High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composite (HPFRCC) so that coupling beams have half of transverse reinforcement. All specimen were compared with a coupling beam designed according to ACI 318 and were evaluated with hysteretic behaviors. Test results showed that the performance of two specimen suggested in this study were similar to that of coupling beam designed according to current criteria. And it was considered that simplification of the details of reinforcement would be available if transverse reinforcement was reduced by using bundled diagonally reinforcement and HPFRCC.

The present study was conducted to appraise tow theoretical models for reinforced concrete members strengthened with carbon fiber reinforced polymer(CFRP) sheets. Predicted values using two models by ACI 440.2R-08 were compared with ones obtained from experiment. For this, two flexural specimens were tested: one unstrengthened specimen and the other strengthened with CFRP sheets. Based on the test results, the wow models are reliable by showing good agreement with the test results.

The objective of this study is about hollow core slab with GFRP (Glass Fiber Reinforced plastics) Reinforcing bar instead of using deformed bar. This experiment is planed because using GFRP Reinforcing bar instead of tension bar in existing RC hollow core slab will improve not only on the constructability but also on the durability by solving the corrosion of slab. As the result of the experimental study, GFRP Reinforcing bar and additional deformed bar appear to be superior compared to RC hollow core slab in structural ability.