Abstract: Concrete columns requiring strengthening intervention always contain a certain percentage of steel hoops. Applying strips of wet layup carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets inbetween the existent steel hoops might, ...

Abstract: Experimental research and real-case applications are demonstrating that the use of fiber–reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials can be a solution to substantially improve circular cross section concrete columns in ...

Abstract: Gluing of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) strips by a structural adhesive into thin slits cut in the cover of reinforced concrete (RC) beams’ lateral faces is a shear strengthening technique that is gaining increasing ...