40-Year-old full-scale concrete bridge girder strengthened with prestressed CFRP plates anchored using gradient method

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 878-886

  Czaderski, Christoph ^a   Motavalli, Masoud ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

A. Plates; D. Mechanical testing; Empa gradient method

Indexed keywords

ANCHORAGE SYSTEM; EMPA GRADIENT METHOD; REFERENCE GIRDER;

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; GRADIENT METHODS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESTRESSED CONCRETE; SHEAR STRESS; TENSILE STRAIN;

CONCRETE BRIDGES;

EID: 34447250324     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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