Abstract: Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have largely been used in combination with masonry and concrete structural elements in the last decade. Recent applications showed that new advantages may also be achieved in the ...

Abstract: Emerging techniques that use fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites for strengthening and conservation of historic masonry are becoming increasingly accepted. In the last decades steel plates or wood frames were used ...

Abstract: The problem of masonry columns subjected to structural deficiency under axial load was studied and reported in this paper. The results of an extensive experimental campaign are presented in order to show the behavior of ...

Abstract: In this work, the results of an experimental study conducted in a 1964-vintage building are presented. Twelve reinforced concrete (RC) T-joists strengthened with fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) composites were loaded until ...

Abstract: Masonry columns often exhibit a lack of load-carrying capacity that is due to overloads and do not provide any ductility or dissipation capacity under seismic forces. Column confinement has been extensively studied as an ...