Flexural behaviour of RC slabs strengthened with prestressed CFRP strips using different anchorage systems

The Externally Bonded Reinforcement (EBR) technique using Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) has been commonly used to strengthen concrete structures in flexure. The use of prestressed CFRP material offers several advantages well-reported in the literature. Regardless of such as benefits, several studies on different topics are missing. The present work intends to contribute to the knowledge of two commercially available systems that differ on the type of anchorage: (i) the Mechanical Anchorage (MA), and (ii) the Gradient Anchorage (GA). For that purpose, an experimental program was carried out with twelve slabs monotonically tested under displacement control up to failure by using a four-point bending test configuration. The effect of type of anchorage system (MA and GA), prestrain level (0 and 0.4%), width (50 mm and 80 mm) and thickness (1.2 mm and 1.4 mm) of the CFRP laminate, and the surface preparation (grinded and sandblasted) on the flexural response were the main studied parameters. Better performance was observed for the slabs: (i) with prestressed laminates, (ii) for the MA system, and (iii) with sandblasted surface preparation.     

Modelling of fatigue damage progression and life of CFRP laminates

A progressive fatigue damage model has been developed for predicting damage accumulation and life of carbon fibre‐reinforced plastics (CFRP) laminates with arbitrary geometry and stacking sequence subjected to constant amplitude cyclic loading. The model comprises the components of stress analysis, fatigue failure analysis and fatigue material property degradation. Stress analysis of the composite laminate was performed by creating a three‐dimensional finite element model in the ANSYS FE code. Fatigue failure analysis was performed by using a set of Hashin‐type failure criteria and the Ye‐delamination criterion. Two types of material property degradations on the basis of element stiffness and strength were applied: a sudden degradation because of sudden failure detected by the fatigue failure criteria and a gradual degradation because of the nature of cyclic loading, which is driven by the increased number of cycles. The gradual degradation of the composite material was modelled by using functions relating the residual stiffness and residual strength of the laminate to the number of cycles. All model components have been programmed in the ANSYS FE code in order to create a user‐friendly macro‐routine. The model has been applied in two different quasi‐isotropic CFRP laminates subjected to tension–compression (T–C) fatigue and the predictions of fatigue life and damage accumulation as a function of the number of cycles were compared with experimental data available in the literature. A very good agreement was obtained.     

Two-stage fatigue loading of woven carbon fibre reinforced laminates

A brief review of the models used to predict the cumulative fatigue damage in FRP composites is presented. Two‐stage fatigue loading of a [0/90,± 45₂,0/90]_s quasi‐ isotropic woven carbon fibre/epoxy resin laminate was evaluated at stress ratio R = 0.05 and the failure mechanisms investigated using x‐radiography after each loading stage. The results are presented in terms of fatigue strength and damage growth and are compared with those in the literature. A low‐to‐high loading sequence is more damaging than a high‐to‐low one and the Palmgren‐Miner linear damage rule may no longer be valid for this kind of material, as previously reported.     

热膨胀硅橡胶在复合材料成型工艺中的应用

简要介绍了热膨胀硅橡胶的性能和特点,热膨胀模成型工艺的原理,并应用其研制了复合材料制件。热膨胀硅橡胶适于制造热膨胀芯模。     

CFRP加固初始受载钢筋砼梁弯曲性能的试验研究

在对一组采用CFRP进行抗弯加固的初始受载钢筋混凝土梁土梁试验的基础上。研究了这些梁的裂纹扩展。载荷-挠度曲线。纵向钢筋和碳纤维布的应变，破坏载荷和破坏特征。     

碳纤维布胶接增强铝合金梁抗弯性能研究

铝合金作为一种高强轻质材料,其应用越来越广泛,但其弹性模量不足钢材的1/3,使铝合金梁容易在受弯过程中产生过大的变形而超出刚度设计标准.通过对3组6根不同形状和尺寸的、用CFRP材料增强铝合金试件梁进行抗弯性能试验,研究其变形和破坏特征,分析其强度、刚度的改善情况及影响其抗弯性能的因素.结果表明,用CFRP材料增强的铝合金梁,在弹性阶段其强度可提高31.2%～64.7%,刚度可提高7.8%～24.6%;至梁破坏时其强度可提高12.7%～43.6%,刚度可提高44.4%～71%.     

碳纤维增强聚合物基复合材料修补空心柱体结构的屈曲分析

采用有限元数值方法和解析方法研究了碳纤维增强聚合物基复合材料(CFRP)加固含损伤空心柱体钢结构在压缩载荷作用下的屈曲问题。通过有限元数值仿真对受轴向压缩载荷的含损伤钢结构进行了纤维增强复合材料的模拟修复,采用八节点复合材料板壳单元模拟复合材料补片结构,考虑理想黏结,通过约束方程建立了CFRP加固含损伤空心柱体钢结构屈曲分析的有限元模型,计算了钢结构的屈曲临界载荷,并与基于能量原理推导的CFRP加固受轴向压缩载荷空心柱体屈曲载荷的理论公式做了比较。参数讨论表明,粘贴CFRP对提高受压结构载荷效果显著;通过改善CFRP层参数可提高结构的临界载荷,增强修补效果;有限元法结果与解析公式计算结果比较吻合。     

CFRP筋有粘结预应力混凝土梁弯矩-挠度关系计算

以碳纤维筋（CFRP筋）有粘结预应力混凝土简支梁三分点加载时的情况为例,在假定双线性的弯矩-曲率关系成立的前提下,给出了其弯矩-挠度关系的建议计算方法。采用此法进行了计算并做了试验。计算结果与试验结果吻合情况良好。     

CFRP索和钢索斜拉桥地震响应分析与抗震验算

为了研究碳纤维增强复合材料（CFRP）索和钢索斜拉桥在地震响应和抗震性能方面的差异,以苏通长江公路大桥为参考建立了有限元动力学模型。采用等轴向刚度准则进行钢索和CFRP索的替换,利用时程分析法比较了不同索斜拉桥的地震响应值,并进行了抗震验算和评价。结果表明：相对钢索斜拉桥,CFRP索斜拉桥的自振频率有明显提高,位移和内力地震响应值减小,响应衰减较快,且抗震性能优势明显,其原因是CFRP索斜拉桥自重轻、索桥耦合振动的概率小、索的材料阻尼大等;所得结论可为CFRP索在大跨斜拉桥中的应用提供参考。