Design provisions for crack spacing and width in RC elements externally bonded with FRP

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-28

  Ceroni, Francesca ^a   Pecce, Marisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

A. Carbon fiber; B. Stress transfer; C. Statistical methods; Cracking

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CARBON FIBERS; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; EXPERIMENTS; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; PAPER SHEETING; PLASTIC LAMINATES; PLASTIC SHEETS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; STEEL;

A. CARBON FIBER; B. STRESS TRANSFER; C. STATISTICAL METHODS; CRACK SPACINGS; CRACK WIDTHS; CRACKING; DESIGN PROVISIONS; EXISTING CODES; EXTERNALLY BONDED; FIBRE REINFORCED PLASTICS; FRP SHEETS; RC ELEMENTS; SERVICE ABILITIES; TEST PROGRAMMES;

REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 57949110330     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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