Out-of-Plane Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Masonry Walls Strengthened With Near-Surface-Mounted Fiber-Reinforced Polymer

• Published in: ACI structural journal Vol. 115; no. 4; pp. 997 - 1010
• Main Authors: Al-Jaberi, Zuhair, Myers, John J., ElGawady, Mohamed A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Farmington Hills American Concrete Institute 01.07.2018
• Subjects: Bars; Cement reinforcements; Concrete; Concrete blocks; Construction; Cyclic loads; Failure modes; Fires; Flexing; Glass fiber reinforced plastics; Investigations; Load; Low carbon steels; Masonry; Materials fatigue; Mathematical models; Mortars (material); Polymers; Reinforcement; Seismic engineering; Stiffness; Structural engineering; Substrates; Ultimate loads; Walls

Eighteen reinforced masonry walls were built as a part of this study. These reinforced walls were strengthened with carbon fiberreinforced polymer (FRP) bars and strips and glass FRP bars using a near-surface-mounted (NSM) technique; different mild steel reinforcement ratios (ρ) were used. These sim...