This study proposes flexural failure design criteria of continuous slabs enhanced by a hybrid system of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) and ultra high performance concrete (UHPC). The proposed hybrid retrofit system is designed to be placed at the top surface of the slabs for flexural strengthening of the sections in both positive and negative moment zones. The enhancing mechanisms of the proposed system for both positive and negative moment regions are presented. The neutral axis of the enhanced sections in positive moment zone at flexural failure is enforced to be in UHPC overlay for preventing the compression in FRP. From this condition, a relationship between design parameters of FRP and UHPC is established. Although the capacity of the proposed retrofit system to enhance flexural strength and ductility is confirmed through experiments of one-way RC slabs having two continuous spans, the retrofitted slabs failed in shear. To prevent this shear failure, a design criteria of flexural failure is proposed.

This study proposes a hybrid system of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) and ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) to enhance flexural strength of existing reinforced concrete (RC) slabs. The proposed system is designed to be placed at the top surface of the slabs for flexural strengthening of the sections in both positive and negative moment zones. The enhancing mechanisms of the proposed system for both positive and negative moment regions are presented. Moreover, to prevent the compression in FRP of the enhanced sections in positive moment zone at flexural failure, neutral axis of the sections at failure is enforced to be in UHPC overlay. From this condition, a relationship between design parameters of FRP and UHPC is established.

본 연구에서는 한국산업표준에서 제시하는 콘크리트 강도 시험용 공시체를 이용하여 콘크리트 보강용 FRP의 부착 성능을 평가하기 위한 실험방법을 제안하고 이에 따라 FRP의 부착성능을 평가해 보도록 한다. 따라서 탄소섬유와 유리섬유로 이루어진 FRP를 두 겹으로 보강하여 양생한 철근 콘크리트 보에서 보강재의 탈락이 유도될 수 있도록 실험체를 설계하고, 3점 재하 시 적절한 파괴형상 및 부착강도가 나타나는 지를 실험을 통해 관찰하였다. 실험결과, 보강재의 탈락으로 인한 파괴가 유도되었으므로, 본 연구에서 제안된 실험방법을 통하여 크기가 작은 일반강도 콘 크리트 실험체에서 FRP의 부착강도를 평가할 수 있는 것으로 사료된다.

본 연구는 하이브리드 FRP로 보강된 철근 콘크리트 보의 구조거동 예측을 목표로 구조해석을 수행하여 기존에 발 표된 실험 연구 데이터와 비교하였다. 보다 정확한 구조해석을 위하여 현존하는 다양한 부착강도 모델을 검토한 후, 이 중 콘크리트 피복분리를 예측하는 Teng and Yao model과 FRP 탈락 현상을 예측할 수 있는 Smith and Teng model을 유한요소 해석 모델에 포함시켰다. 비선형 재료 및 형상 역시 구조해석 모델에 포함되었으며 이렇게 해석 된 결과는 실험결과와 비교하여 유사한 경향을 나타냈다. 그러나 다양한 하이브리드 FRP로 보강한 철근 콘크리트 보의 파괴모드를 보다 정확하게 예측하기 위하여 현존하는 수치식의 수정 및 도입이 필요하다.

Six concrete beam specimens reinforced with multiple layers of reinforcement and combinations of different reinforcement types (steel, GFRP, and CFRP bars), and four FRP bar-reinforced concrete beams with fibers were constructed and tested. An investigation was performed on load-carrying capacity, post cracking stiffness, cracking pattern, and ductility for all specimens. Addition of fibers and hybrid reinforcing with steel bars can be possible methods to overcome the low stiffness and ductility of FRP bar-reinforced beams.

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of preload and different types of hybrid FRPs (Fiber reinforced polymers) to the structural behaviors of reinforced concrete (RC) beams retrofitted with hybrid FRPs under sustaining loads. For the experimental study, FRP retrofitted RC beams are fabricated and subjected to four point loading. The experimental results show that preload and the orders of attached FRP layers have influence on FRP strengthening effect. Also, for the preliminary FEA study, FE models are generated to simulate the experiments. The analytical results are compared with the experimental results and show good agreements.

The fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) strengthening is significantly effective for enhancing the performances of concrete to the high strain rate loadings. However, the FRP retrofitted concrete members show different behaviors comparing to quasi-static cases. This study presents experimental observation on behaviors of meso-scale concrete members retrofitted with FRP sheets under low-velocity drop-weight impact loadings. Concrete specimens with the dimensions of 100×100×400 mm were fabricated and various FRP sheets were attached. The specimens with a reinforced bottom surface and the doubly reinforced specimens showed much higher energy absorptions. Also, reinforced concrete (RC) members were cast and reinforced with CFRP sheets. The FRP flexural and shear strengthening RC beams has weakness in the spalling failure because the impact load concentrated the concrete face which is not strengthened with FRP sheets.

This study is planed to solve the overturning problem and manifestation of tensile cracking of plain concrete piers of railroad bridges. For the overturning problem, earth anchors are used to fix the bottom of a pier to a rock-foundation using prestressing cables. Composite of FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymer)and Steel Plates (FSP) are attached longitudinally on the surface of the pier to prevent cracking. Then, FRP band strips are wrapped onto the FSPs to provide lateral confinement. Push-over tests in field show that the earth anchors are effective in preventing the overturning of the pier, and that the FSPs and the FRP strips prevent the cracking of concrete and increase the strength in bending.

FRP Sheet와 비좌굴가새를 적용한 보-기둥 접합부의 보강효과를 평가하기 위하여 보-기둥 접합부 실험체에 축력 및 반복 횡가력을 가하여 실험을 수행하였다. 동일한 크기의 6개의 실험체를 제작하였으며 FRP Sheet의 종류 및 비좌굴 가새의 유무를 변수로 하였다. 실험체의 파괴양상 및 최대하중, 연성지수, 에너지소산능력의 측면에서 실험결과를 분석하였다. 실험결과 CFRP Sheet와 비좌굴가새를 혼용한 보강방법이 가장 우수한 성능을 나타냈다.

In construction industries, new construction materials are needed to overcome some problems associated with the use of conventional construction materials due to the change of environmental and social requirements. Accordingly, the requirements to be satisfied in the design of civil engineering structures are diversified. As a new construction material in the civil engineering industries, fiber reinforced polymeric plastic (FRP) has a superior corrosion resistance, high specific strength/stiffness, etc. Therefore, such properties can be used to mitigate the problems associated with the use of conventional construction materials. Nowadays, new types of bridge piers and marine piles are being studied for new construction. They are usually made of concrete filled fiber reinforced polymeric plastic tubes (CFFT). In this paper, a new type of FRP-concrete composite pile which is composed of reinforced concrete filled FRP tube (RCFFT) is proposed to improve compressive strength as well as flexural strength. The load carrying capacity of proposed RCFFT compression member is discussed based on the result of experimental and analytical investigations.

본 연구에서는, 기존 철근 콘크리트 구조물에 적용된 직접 변위-기반 설계법을 적용 FRP 피복 보강된 성능개선 콘크리트 부재에 대한 정밀 비선형 휨 해석 및 내진성능설계의 구체적 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 비선형 휨 해석의 정밀 예측을 위하여 콘크리트 및 FRP 복합재료의 다축 구성관계를 고려하였으며, Chopra 등 (1999)이 제안한 직접 변위-기반 설계법(DDM)을 개선하여 철근콘크리트 기둥에 대한 성능개선을 위한 FRP 피복 보강을 위한 성능설계 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 제시된 직접 변위-기반 설계법은, 변위계수법과 비교하여, 비선형 거동이 큰 경우에도 목표 변위 성능 값에 대한 정확한 추정을 해준다. 이는 변위계수법이 항복 이전의 유효탄성계수를 사용하는 반면, 직접 변위-기반 설계법은 유효탄할선탄성계수를 고려하고 있어, 목표 변위에 따른 성능설계 평가에 있어서 보다 높은 연성비의 거동을 반영하고 있기 때문인 것으로 평가된다.

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).

The purpose of this study is to investigate the freeze - thaw behavior of FRP reinforced concrete structures. Under the same conditions, two FRP reinforced beam specimens were made, and one speciemen was subjected to freezing and thawing. Then a four-point bending experiment was conducted. As a result, it was analyzed that the load values of reinforced specimens after freezing and thawing appear less at the same displacement in displacement-load behavior.

In this study, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the behavior of fiber reinforced concrete beam according to GFRP(Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer)sheets and based on previous specimens and directly compare the fiber reinforcing effect. As a result, all specimens, regardless of the cross section shape, had an increase in torsional capacity and similar behavior compared to previous study.

This research presents effectiveness of fiber-reinforced polymer column jacketing system for a non-ductile reinforced concrete building frame constructed before the 1970s. To investigate the retrofit effects, a series of full-scale dynamic tests for the retrofitted test frame was conducted, and the dynamic responses were compared to those of the non-retrofitted test frame. The effectiveness of the retrofit system was investigated in terms of response reductions, damage mechanisms and drift concentration factors.

본 연구의 목적은 해석적 방법을 통하여 내화 재료의 특성을 파악하고 섬유 강화 폴리머로 보강된 철근콘크리트의 보의 적절한 내화설계 방법을 제안하는 것이다. 이를 위해, 내화재료의 가열실험을 실시하고 유한요소해석을 통해 열전도율과 비열을 구하고 또한 고온에서 FRP로 보강된 철근콘크리트 보 실험체에 대한 유한요소 해석을 통해 실험결과와 해석결과를 비교하였다. 이 과정에서 실험과 해석적 접근의 신뢰성을 확인하였다. 최종적으로 FRP로 보강된 철근콘크리트 보의 열적특성을 제안된 해석 방법으로 분석하고 고온으로 감소된 휨내력을 계산하였다. 최종적으로 제안된 방법을 이용하여 FRP로 보강된 부재에서 고온 노출시 열특성을 반영한 부재의 열전도를 파악하고 이를 이용하여 내력을 산정할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

In this study, the bond strength of FRP reinforced inorganic adhesive developed in previous studies was exposed to high temperature. As a result of the experiment, it was confirmed that the bond strength was increased at room temperature in the range of 100 to 200 ° C, but the width gradually decreased with increasing temperature.