Advanced Polymer Composites for Structural Applications in Construction Book

1.1	The development and the future of advanced polymer composites in the civil infrastructure	3
1.2	The development of composites and their utilisation in Switzerland	23
1.3	Durability of FRP composites for civil infrastructures - myth, mystery or reality	33
1.4	Beyond rehabilitation - use of FRP composites in new structural systems: laboratory and field implementation	45
1.5	GRP offshore - applications and design for fire	55
2.1	Effect of curvature on the bond between concrete and CFRP sheets	69
2.2	Cracking analysis of FRP reinforced concrete tension members	77
2.3	Guidance on installing, inspecting and monitoring FRP strengthened concrete structures	85
2.4	A new prepeg material used in conjunction with concrete to form a structural unit	91
2.5	Effect of flexural cracking on plate and shear stress in FRP-strengthened beams	101
2.6	Torsional strengthening of spandrel beams with CFRP laminates	109
2.7	Ductility and deformability of FRP strengthned concrete beams	117
2.8	Debonding in RC cantilever slabs strengthened with FRP strips	125
2.9	Anchorage length of near-surface mounted FRP rods in concrete	135
2.10	Behaviour of FRP strengthened flexural RC elements subjected to degradation influences	143
2.11	Interfacial stresses in plated RC beams under arbitrary symmetric loads: a high-order closed-form solution	153
2.12	Premature failure of RC continuous beams strengthened with CFRP laminates	165
2.13	Behaviour of concrete beams strengthened with near surface mounted reinforcement, NSMR	177
3.1	Early age curing under cyclic loading - an investigation into stiffness development in carbon fibre reinforced steel beams	187
3.2	Flexural behaviour of steel beams reinforced with carbon fibre reinforced polymer composite	195
3.3	Mechanical splice of grid CFRP reinforcement and steel plate	203
3.4	Repair of steel bridges with CFRP plates	211
3.5	The design of carbon fibre composite (cfc) strengthening for cast iron struts at Shadwell Station vent shaft	219
4.1	Influence of specimen size and resin type on the behaviour of FRP-confined concrete cylinders	231
4.2	Performance and application of a design-oriented stress-strain model for FRP-confined concrete	241
4.3	Performance assessment of FRP - confinement models - part I: review of experiments and models	251
4.4	Performance assessment of FRP - confinement models - part II: comparison of experiments and predictions	261
4.5	Repair of a damaged circular column using carbon fiber sheet (Reno system)	271
5.1	Composite wall anchors	283
5.2	GFRP pipe joints reinforced using composite pins	291
5.3	A critique of the EUROCOMP simplified design method for Bolted joints in long fibre reinforced polymer composite materials	301
5.4	Study and application on strengthening the cracked brick walls with continuous carbon fiber sheet	309