Assessing the Efficiency of CFRP Discrete Confinement Systems for Concrete Cylinders
- 1 April 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Composites for Construction
- Vol. 12 (2) , 134-148
Abstract
Concrete columns requiring strengthening intervention always contain a certain percentage of steel hoops. Applying strips of wet layup carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets inbetween the existent steel hoops might, therefore, be an appropriate confinement technique with both technical and economic advantages, when full wrapping of a concrete column is taken as a basis of comparison. To assess the effectiveness of this discrete confinement strategy, circular cross-sectional concrete elements confined by distinct arrangements of strips of CFRP sheet are submitted to a direct compression load up to the failure point. The influence of the width of the strip, distance between strips, number of CFRP layers per strip, CFRP stiffness, and concrete strength class on the increase of the load carrying capacity and ductility of concrete columns, is evaluated. An analytical model is developed to predict the compressive stress-strain relationship of concrete columns confined by discrete and continuous CFRP arra...Keywords
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