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Gand, AK, Yeboah, D, Khorami, M, Olubanwo, AO and Lumor, R (2018) Behaviour of strengthened timber beams using near surface mounted Basalt Fibre Reinforced Polymer (BFRP) rebars. Engineering Solid Mechanics, 6 (4). pp. 341-352. ISSN 2291-8744
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Abstract
Reinforcement of structural timber members with fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) rods offers merits over that of the conventional steel type. In recent times, near surface mounted (NSM) FRP reinforcement with timber has emerged as a promising alternative for reinforcing timber structures in both flexural and shear loading configurations. Previous investigations have shown that NSM FRP reinforcement technique has higher bond performance than externally bonded equivalents because it (NSM FRP technique) is able to utilise the full capacity of the FRP materials. In spite of these merits, the investigations and the use of this innovative technique are limited. In this paper, an experiment was conducted to investigate the bond characteristics and performance of NSM basalt FRP reinforcement with solid timber structures. In order to predict the performance of the reinforced beam structures, unreinforced control timber members of the same timber characteristics were tested. The results showed that the average bond capacity of the NSM FRP reinforced members was 16% higher than the corresponding unreinforced beams.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TH Building construction |
| Divisions: | Civil Engineering (merged with Built Env 10 Aug 20) |
| Publisher: | Growing Science |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2019 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 08:40 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.5267/j.esm.2018.7.001 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11557 |
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