TY - GEN
T1 - DIC strain analysis of FRP/concrete bond after sustained loading
AU - Bakis, Charles E.
AU - Salasky, Heather
AU - Artun, Kivanc
AU - Lopez, Maria M.
AU - Whitaker, Marcus B.
AU - Boothby, Thomas
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge donations of materials by Watson Bowman Acme Corp. (Wabo). Mr. Phillip Regal and Ms. Sally Gimbert are thanked for making the specimens and placing them under load. Dr. Yoseok Jeong is thanked for helping with the beam tests and DIC method. Mr. Daniel Fuhrman is thanked for testing the concrete properties after sustained loading. This work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants 0219484 and CMMI-0826461 and by Research Experience for Undergraduates supplemental grants. Opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Externally bonded glass and carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites are increasingly being used to upgrade, repair, and rehabilitate steel reinforced concrete structures such as beams and slabs. The effectiveness of the bonded composites depends on the integrity of the composite/concrete bond over years of exposure to sustained loads and various weather conditions. The present investigation was conceived with the aim of characterizing bond behavior over a long period of time in realistic indoor and outdoor environments, with sustained loading. Plain concrete beams were externally reinforced with wet-layup glass and carbon composites and subjected to sustained flexural loads for 6 years. Then, the beams were loaded to failure while strains on the composite were recorded using resistance strain gages and full-field digital image correlation. The results indicate that ultimate bond strength is strongly correlated with changes in the concrete strength. This finding is consistent with bond failures being mainly controlled by the concrete rather than the composite material. Glass composite specimens generally had less debonding prior to failure, along with higher strength concrete. Furthermore, it appears that the sustained loading itself had little effect on the ultimate bond strength.
AB - Externally bonded glass and carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites are increasingly being used to upgrade, repair, and rehabilitate steel reinforced concrete structures such as beams and slabs. The effectiveness of the bonded composites depends on the integrity of the composite/concrete bond over years of exposure to sustained loads and various weather conditions. The present investigation was conceived with the aim of characterizing bond behavior over a long period of time in realistic indoor and outdoor environments, with sustained loading. Plain concrete beams were externally reinforced with wet-layup glass and carbon composites and subjected to sustained flexural loads for 6 years. Then, the beams were loaded to failure while strains on the composite were recorded using resistance strain gages and full-field digital image correlation. The results indicate that ultimate bond strength is strongly correlated with changes in the concrete strength. This finding is consistent with bond failures being mainly controlled by the concrete rather than the composite material. Glass composite specimens generally had less debonding prior to failure, along with higher strength concrete. Furthermore, it appears that the sustained loading itself had little effect on the ultimate bond strength.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-22446-6_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-22446-6_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84952362238
SN - 9783319224459
T3 - Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
SP - 47
EP - 56
BT - Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics - Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
A2 - Lamberti, Luciano
A2 - Lin, Ming-Tzer
A2 - Jin, Helena
A2 - Yoshida, Sanichiro
PB - Springer New York LLC
T2 - Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2015
Y2 - 8 June 2015 through 11 June 2015
ER -