A Design Process for Preventing Brittle Failure in Strengthening RC Slabs with Hybrid FRP-HPC Retrofit Systems.
Materials (Basel)
; 16(2)2023 Jan 12.
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The retrofitting of existing RC slabs with an innovative system comprising FRP and HPC has been demonstrated to be effective in strengthening and overcoming the logistical challenges of installation. Nonetheless, the excessive improvement of flexural strength over shear strength would cause the sudden failure of rehabilitated flexural members. The literature has previously recommended failure limits to determine the additional moment strength compared with the shear strength to prevent brittle shear failure of strengthened, continuous RC slabs. This study suggests a design process for preventing shear failure and inducing the ductile-failure mode to improve the safety and applicability of retrofitted RC slabs based on the proposed failure limits. The effectiveness of the procedure in brittle-failure prevention for the end and interior spans of retrofitted RC slabs is illustrated via a case study. The outcomes showed that the retrofit system with 0.53-mm-thick-CFRP prevented brittle failure and significantly enhanced the design-factored load and ultimate failure load by up to 2.07 times and 2.13 times, respectively.
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