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Strengths of RC beams with a fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP)-strengthened web opening

Journal

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Volume 258, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.113380

Keywords

Reinforced concrete (RC) beam; Web opening; Fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) strengthening; FRP confinement; Strength model

Funding

  1. Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [PolyU 5273/11E]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51878310]

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The study focuses on strengthening RC beams with an FRP system around web openings; introduces an iterative numerical method and a strength model to predict the load capacity of such beams; the accuracy of the proposed methods is verified through test results.
For the passage of utility ducts and/or pipes, openings often need to be created in the web of a reinforced concrete (RC) beam. Such a web opening can lead to a significant decrease in the ultimate load (i.e., strength) of the beam due to the reduced cross-sectional area and/or the severing of some of the existing steel reinforcement (particularly stirrups). In such cases, an externally-bonded fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) strengthening system may be installed around the web opening to ensure the safety of the weakened beam. While existing experimental and numerical studies have provided useful information on the structural behaviour of RC beams with an FRP-strengthened web opening, this paper presents a theoretical study on the strength of such beams. First, a relatively simple, iterative numerical procedure (referred to as the iterative method) based on the static method of plastic limit analysis for predicting the plastic limit load (i.e., strength) of RC beams with an FRP-strengthened web opening is proposed, and then a closed-form, algebraic strength equation (referred to as the strength model) for such beams is established as a simplified approach of the iterative method. The accuracy of the proposed iterative method and strength model is verified with test results.

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