Restored strength of cracked concrete beam repaired by epoxy and polymethyl methacrylate

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 451-458

  Kan, Yu Cheng ^a   Yen, Tsong ^b   Lee, Ming Gin ^a  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Crack; Epoxy; PMMA; Repair

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETE PRODUCTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAINTENANCE; MORTAR; PAINTING; PLASTER; REPAIR; RESEARCH; SHEARING; TESTING;

BONDING CHARACTERISTICS; BONDING PERFORMANCE; CONCRETE BEAMS; CONCRETE CRACKS; CRACK; DYNAMIC FINITE ELEMENT; EPOXY; FLEXURAL CRACKS; PMMA; POLY-METHYL METHACRYLATE; PROPAGATION PATHS; RESEARCH WORKS; TEST CONFIGURATIONS; TEST RESULTS;

CRACKS;

EID: 52649178862     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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