Steel, concrete and their combination materials are the most 6commonly used materials for civil engineering structural systems such as buildings, bridge structures and other structures. Recently, however, fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites, a relatively new composite material made of fibers and polymer resins, have been gradually used in structural systems as an alternative structural material. This paper describes a comparison of design strength equations for steel column and FRP composite column based on design philosophies. The safety factors used in allowable stress design (ASD) are relatively higher in FRP structural design than steel structural design. Column critical stress equations of FRP composites column from an experimental study can be represented by Euler elastic buckling equation at the long-range of slenderness, and an exponential form at the short-range of slenderness as defined in Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) of steel column. The column strength of steel and FRP composite columns in large slenderness is independent of material strength, this result verified the elastic buckling equation as derived by Eq. (15) and Eq. (5).

Due to the increasingly serious environmental problems presented by waste tires, the feasibility of using elastic and flexible tire-rubber particles as aggregate in concrete is investigated in this study. Tire-rubber particles is composed of tire chips, crumb rubber, and a combination of tire chips and crumb rubber. Experimental work of Waste Rubber Particle Reinforced Mortar(WRPRM) have been conducted in the form of cube specimens [50mm x 50mm x 50mm], beam specimens [40mm x 40mm x 160mm] mixed with 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% of rubber particle. We executed test for compression strength test, bending strength test on 7 days, 14days, 28days and percentage of moisture content test on 28days after initial curing. In this study, We studied the initial strength of WRPRM. But, in order to understand the reinforcing effect of the rubber particles, we need to execute a test of Waste Rubber Particle Reinforced Concrete(WRPRC).

This paper describes the creep results of experimental testing of GFRP / Aluminum composite beam strengthened RC beams under the two different sustained loads. Specimens have been designed and fabricated to reflect the most common RC beams used in school buildings.

The acoustic emission technique (AE) was implemented to assess long-term performance of concrete beams (reinforced with glass fiber reinforced polymers (GFRP) and steel bars) exposed to an aggressive combination of high temperature and humidity. This study presents the results and discussions of an experimental study concerning AE characteristics of long-term behaviors of concrete beams reinforced with GFRP and steel bars after accelerated

다양한 요인에 의해 성능이 저하된 철근콘크리트 구조물은 보수․보강 공법이 요구된다. 현재 다양한 공법과 신소재를 이용한 보강법의 개발이 진행 중에 있다. 최근에 섬유보강 복합체(FRP)를 이용한 보강공법이 주목받고 있으며, 많은 연구와 개발이 진행 중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 FRP-알루미늄 유공복합보로 보강된 RC보의 화재거동에 관한 실험결과를 제시하고자 한다. 사전가력으로 손상시킨 RC보에 FRP-알루미늄 유공복합보로 보강후 화재노출시킨 결과, 손상율이 높아질수록 화재노출에 더욱 많은 영향을 받았으며, 보강효과가 떨어짐을 실험결과 나타났다.