Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, TamilNadu, India
*Corresponding author e-mail: ponmalar_v@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 19 September, 2014.
FRP is a composite material used to strengthen the concrete members. Concrete with two different exposure conditions and number of layers of wrapping are studied. Results from a series of an experimental study on small scale cylinders showed that confinement effect increased the strength from 67% to 150% for 1, 2 & 3 numbers of layers of GFRP wraps. Temperature effect decreases the compressive strength of concretes from 6% to 18% to the wrapped concrete. Exposure temperature and strength reduction on concretes are directly proportional to one another.
FRP, temperature, effect, comparison, reduction
