Design of FRP and Steel Plated RC Structures
Preface
Retrofitting is a major growth area in civil engineering simply because the
infrastructure is forever expanding and aging and more of the available resources are
being used to maintain it. Hence, it is imperative to develop inexpensive and efficient
retrofitting techniques, and tests have shown that bonding longitudinal plates to the
surfaces of reinforced concrete structures can be economical, efficient and
unobtrusive. However, these tests have also shown that the plates can debond
prematurely so that much high quality research has been done around the world on
identifying and quantifying these debonding mechanics. It may be worth noting that
because plated structures exhibit unique forms of failure, they should be treated as a
new form of structure.
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Preface
Retrofitting is a major growth area in civil engineering simply because the
infrastructure is forever expanding and aging and more of the available resources are
being used to maintain it. Hence, it is imperative to develop inexpensive and efficient
retrofitting techniques, and tests have shown that bonding longitudinal plates to the
surfaces of reinforced concrete structures can be economical, efficient and
unobtrusive. However, these tests have also shown that the plates can debond
prematurely so that much high quality research has been done around the world on
identifying and quantifying these debonding mechanics. It may be worth noting that
because plated structures exhibit unique forms of failure, they should be treated as a
new form of structure.
Download
http://s18.alxa.net/s18/srvs2/02/001...Structures.rar