An experimental investigation on flexural behavior of RC beams strengthened with prestressed CFRP strips using a durable anchorage system |
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| Authors: | Young-Chan You Ki-Sun Choi JunHee Kim |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Safety Control of Bridge Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410004, China;2. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States;3. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Safety Control of Bridge Engineering, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410004, China;4. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States;1. ISISE, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Minho, Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal;2. Structural Engineering Research Laboratory, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland;1. School of Civil & Hydraulic Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China;2. Department of Building Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China;3. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, USA;1. Civil Engineering Department, Nigde University, Nigde, Turkey;2. School of Engineering, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK;3. Civil Engineering Department, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the effectiveness and feasibility of a prestressed carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) system for strengthening reinforced concrete (RC) beams. The proposed prestressing system with a novel anchorage allows the utilization of full capacity of the CFRP strips. Eight small-scale and two large-scale concrete beams strengthened different configuration of prestressed CFRP strips are tested under static loading conditions up to failure. The main parameters considered include the level of prestressing applied, ranging from 20% to 70% of the tensile strength of the CFRP strips, and the use of mechanical anchorages at both ends of the CFRP strips. Thanks to the durable anchorage, the full range of flexural behavior was investigated including post-debonding. The results indicate that the beams strengthened using prestressed CFRP strips exhibited a higher first-cracking, steel-yielding, and experimental nominal moments as the level of prestressing force increased up to a certain point. After analyzing prestress effects in small scale tests, an optimum prestress level for strengthening concrete beams using CFRP strips is proposed and verified in large scale tests. |
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