*Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Jansons Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
**Professor and HOD, Civil Engineering, JSS Academy of Technical Education, JSS Campus, Uttarahalli, Bangalore, India
***Students, Department of Civil Engineering, Jansons Institute of Technology, Coimbatore
Online published on 11 November, 2013.
Strengthening of reinforced concrete structures using FRP has emerged as a potential solution to the problems associated with civil infrastructure. Many researchers have reported significant increases in strength and stiffness of FRP retrofitted concrete structures. The objective of this work is to evaluate the structural behaviour of reinforced concrete beams with externally wrapped with GFRP. The study parameters of this investigation included the ultimate load carrying capacity and their corresponding deflections and mode of failures of the tested specimens. The performance of GFRP specimens were compared with that of control specimens. The test results showed that the beams strengthened with GFRP laminates exhibited better performance.
Compression, Flexural, Tensile, Strengthening, Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer
