Long term durability of pultruded polymer composite rebar in concrete environment

Materials and Design

Volumn 57, Issue , 2014, Pages 616-624

  Sawpan, Moyeenuddin Ahmad ^a   Mamun, Abdullah A ^b   Holdsworth, Peter G ^a  

^a Composite Materials Research Pultron Composites Limited ^*  (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkaline ageing; Design tensile strength; Durability; Glass fibre reinforced polymer composite; Pultrusion

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DURABILITY; GLASS; POLYMERS; PULTRUSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ALKALINE AGEING; CONCRETE ENVIRONMENTS; DESIGN TENSILE STRENGTHS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; GLASS FIBRE REINFORCED POLYMERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS; TENSILE ELASTIC MODULUS; THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

CONCRETES;

EID: 84893356080     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2014.01.049     Document Type: Article

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