Composite tubes as an alternative to steel spirals for concrete members in bending and shear

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 347-355

  Fam, Amir ^a   Cole, Britton ^b   Mandal, Siddhwartha ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TSH Engineers Architects and Planners   (Canada)

^c Delcan Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bending; Confinement; FRP; Shear; Spalling; Spiral reinforcement; Tube

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BENDING STRENGTH; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; POLYMERS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SPALLING; STIFFNESS;

CONFINEMENT; GLASS FIBRE-REINFORCED POLYMER (GFRP); HOOP STIFFNESS; LONGITUDINAL REINFORCEMENT;

CONCRETES;

EID: 33748451862     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2005.08.016     Document Type: Article

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