Externally Bonded Fiber-Reinforced Polymers for Flexural Strengthening of Concrete Beams : Rupture Failure Mode.

Abstract: This study provides direct design equations that can be used for FRP reinforced beams with a rupture mode of FRP rupture. An analytical perspective to simplify calculations by developing exact and approximate set of closed form equations is used. This paper is collaboration between the Department of Civil engineering at Kansas State University in Manhattan Kansas and the Department of Structural Engineering at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.