Flexural strengthening of precast reinforced concrete bridge girders using bonded carbon fibre reinforced polymer strips or external port-tensioning

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 499-512

  Sayed Ahmed, Ezzeldin Y ^a   Riad, Amr H ^b   Shrive, Nigel G ^c  

^a The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bridges; CFRP; Flexure strengthening; Post tension; Precast girders; Prestressing; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; CONCRETE BRIDGES; HIGHWAY BRIDGES; PRECAST CONCRETE; PRESTRESSING;

EXTERNAL PRESTRESSING; FLEXURAL STRENGTHENING;

PRESTRESSED BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

BRIDGE;

EID: 3843060359     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l04-005     Document Type: Article

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