Design of FRP and Steel Plated RC Structures - Retrofitting Beams and Slabs for Strength, Stiffness and Ductility 2004








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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