PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6th ASIA-PACIFIC

CONFERENCEON FRP IN STRUCTURES

19th -21st July 2017, Singapore

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair:

Professor Qing-Rui YUE

Chairman of FRP Application Committee, China Civil Engineers Society

President of Central Research Institute of Building and Construction, MCC Group

Co-Chair:

Professor Guijun XIAN

School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Members:

Y. Bai L.S. Chee G.M. Chen X.B. Chen X.D. Chen

J.G. Dai J. Deng P. Feng R. Li W.Q. Liu

X.Z. Lu K.H. Tan Z.Y. Tan B.L. Wan Y.L. Wang

Z.Y. Wang G. Wu W.C. Xue Y.X. Yang T. Yu

C.Y. Zhou

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6th ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE

ON FRP IN STRUCTURES

TABLE OF CONTENT

KEYNOTE LECTURES

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER TENDONS: QUO VADIS?

Urs Meier KN01

LONG-TERM SERVICE PERFORMANCES OF FRP COMPOSITES: UNDERSTANDING &

IMPROVEMENT

Hui Li KN02

FRP COMPOSITES AND STRUCTURES: MYTHS, MYSTERIES AND THE FUTURE (AS WE

APPROACH 40 YEARS OF USE)

Vistasp M. Karbhari KN03

INNOVATIVE HYBRID STRUCTURES ENABLED BY FRP COMPOSITES

Jin-Guang Teng KN04

SMART COMPOSITES FOR INFRASTRUCTURES AND OFFSHORE WIND-GENERATION

Monssef Drissi-Habti KN05

STRENGTHENING OF RC STRUCTURES

FRP STRENGTHENING BASED ON STRUT-AND-TIE MODELLING

(Invited presentation)

Tan Kiang Hwee 193

PUNCHING SHEAR IN REINFORCED CONCRETE FLAT PLATES UNDER ECCENTRIC

LOADS: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION

Nazar K. Oukaili and Luma F. Husain 111

DATA ANALYSIS ON EFFECT OF SHEAR SPAN/DEPTH RATIO ON FRP SHEAR

CONTRIBUTION

Weiwen Li, Zeqi Huang and Wei Liu 201

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INFLUENCE OF CFRP REINFORCEMENT ON CHLORIDE ION PENETRATION IN

CONCRETE BEAMS

Yan Xie, Kunhua Guan, Jun Deng and Yi Wang 144

INFLUENCE OF INTERFACE TYPES ON THE FLEXURAL PERFORMANCE OF

FRP-CONCRETE COMPOSITE BEAMS

Zhang Pu, Yang Sen, Chen Gang, Zhao Jun, Liu Huana and Tang Guobin 112

APPLICATION OF RESIN INFUSION METHOD IN FRP STRENGTHENING OF CONCRETE

STRUCTURES

S.A. Hadigheh 106

FAILURE PROCESS IN RC BEAMS SHEAR-STRENGTHENED WITH FRP IN HOGGING

MOMENT ZONE

P.C. Liu, G.M. Chen and J.F. Chen 198

FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITE BEAM REINFORCED WITH GFRP I-BEAM

Jiansong Yuan and Muhammad N. S. Hadi 65

A REVIEW ON SHEAR STRENGTHENING OF CONCRETE BEAMS WITH FRP

COMPOSITES

Hongguang Wang and Guijun Xian 191

FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF RC BEAMS SHEAR STRENGTHENED WITH SIDE

BONDED CFRP SHEETS

Abdel Rahman, G. Mabrouk and Osman M. Ramadan 166

FRP ANCHORS/CONNECTORS

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF PULTRUDED FRP PLATE STRUCTURE

Yuwei Wu, Peng Feng and Xiao Zhang 179

MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF CFRP LAMINATED STRIP-LOOP CABLES

Pengcheng Ai and Peng Feng 175

EFFECT OF BOLT PRELOAD ON BEARING STRENGTH OF A SINGLE BOLTED

CONNECTION OF GFRP MEMBERS

Yasuo Kitane, Masahiro Myoga, Yoshito Itoh and Hideki Hibi 96

EFFECT OF GEOMETRY AND TIGHTENING TORQUE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF

LAMINATED COMPOSITE MULTI-BOLT JOINTS

B. Mandal and A. Chakrabarti 97

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SPECIAL SESSION ON FRP-CONFINED CONCRETE COLUMNS

AXIAL COMPRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR OF FRP-CONFINED RECYCLED BRICK AGGREGATE

CONCRETE

T. Jiang, W. P. Zhang, G. M. Chen, F. M. Ren and X. M. Wang 169

THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON AXIAL STRENGTH OF

CFRP-CONFINED CONCRETE-FILLED STEEL TUBES

Changkai Huang, Jun Deng and Yifeng Zheng 167

CFRP-CONFINEMENT OF RC COLUMNS IN GERMANY: STATE-OF-THE-ART AND

RECENT FINDINGS

Stefan Kaeseberg and Klaus Holschemacher 171

ECCENTRIC AXIAL LOAD CAPACITY OF FRP CONFINED CONCRETE WITH DIFFERENT

WRAPPING CONFIGURATIONS

Weiqiang Wang, Patrick R. Martin, Mai Anh-Duc, M. Neaz Sheikh and Muhammad N. S. Hadi 172

THEORETICAL AXIAL STRESS-AXIAL STRAIN BEHAVIOUR OF FRP CONFINED SQUARE

AND CIRCULARIZED HOLLOW CONCRETE SPECIMENS UNDER AXIAL COMPRESSION

Mohammed T. Jameel, M. Neaz Sheikh and Muhammad N. S. Hadi 173

COMPRESSION TESTS ON FRP-CONFINED RUBBER CONCRETE

Chunwa Chan, Tao Yu, Shishun Zhang and Qingfeng Xu 174

COMPRESSION TESTS ON SQUARE HYBRID FRP-CONCRETE-STEEL TUBULAR

COLUMNS WITH A RIB-STIFFENED STEEL INNER TUBE

Kaidi Peng, Tao Yu and Muhammad N. S. Hadi 168

NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF THE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF

CFRP-RETROFITTED SQUARE RC COLUMNS

Daiyu Wang,D.W. Zhang and Zhenyu Wang 83

SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF CFRP-RETROFITTED RECTANGULAR RC COLUMNS

UNDER BI-DIRECTIONAL EARTHQUAKES

Zhenyu Wang and Daiyu Wang 84

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AXIAL CRUSHING BEHAVIOR OF MACROSPHERE SYNTACTIC FOAM COLUMNS

CONFINED WITH FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER JACKETS

Jun Wang, Ruifeng Liang, Ding Zhou, Hota GangaRao and Weiqing Liu 9

FRCM-STRENGTHENED RC STRUCTURES

SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF RC BEAMS STRENGTHENED WITH FRP GRID REINFORCED

ENGINEERED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES

Xu Yang, Jian-Guo Dai and Zhoudao Lu 122

A REVIEW ON THE USAGE OF BASALT FEBER REINFORCED POLYMER(BFRP) IN

CONCRETE

Miaomiao.zhu and Jianxun.Ma 142

BOND BEHAVIOR OF GFRP BARS EMBEDDED IN NORMAL STRENGTH CONCRETE AND

BASALT FIBER REINFORCED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITE

Karam Mahmoud, Mohamed T. Bassuoni, Ehab El-Salakawy and Mohammed El-Gendy 76

EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF CFRP-ECC HYBRID FOR STRENGTHENING OF CONCRETE

STRUCTURES

Chao Wu and Victor C. Li 42

SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF ECC AND CONCRETE/ECC COMPOSITE BEAMS REINFORCED

WITH BFRP BARS

Dawei Gu, Jinlong Pan and Jixuan He 180

STRENGTHENING SQUARE CONCRETE COLUMN WITH BASALT FIBRE TEXTILE

REINFORCED ECC

A.N. AL-Gemeel and Y. Zhuge 130

HYBRID FRP STRUCTURES

SHEAR FAILURE OF UHPC-FRP HYBRID BEAMS

(Invited Presentation)

Mina Iskander, Raafat El-Hacha and Nigel Shrive 148

CONCRETE BEAMS REINFORCED WITH GFRP STAY-IN-PLACE FORMWORK

Valon Sylaj and Amir Fam 104

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SHAKING TABLE TEST ON A NOVEL GFRP WALL DAMPER

Hao Wu and An Chen 53

NOVEL HYBRID FRP-TIMBER-CONCRETE FLOOR PANEL SYSTEM

Ya Ou, Dilum Fernando and Joseph M. Gattas 150

BEHAVIOUR OF FRP AND HYBRID INFILL PLATES FOR THIN PLATE SHEAR WALLS

Mohammad Dakhel, Ted Donchev, Homayoun Hadaviania, Mukesh Limbachiya and Somaya

Bakhshzaad 92

FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF HYBRID STEEL-FRP

CONTINUOUS REINFORCED CONCRETE (HSFCRC) BEAMS

Haitham A. Ibrahim and Mohamed F. M. Fahmy 99

PRESENT SITUATION AND PROBLEMS OF DESIGN AND CALCULATION OF HYBRID

FRP-STEEL TRUSS BRIDGE

Zhao Qilin, Gao Jiangang, Pan Darong, Li Fei, Zhang Dongdong and Chen Li 140

INTERNAL REINFORCEMENT

STEEL-FREE HYBRID REINFORCING BARS FOR CONCRETE STRUCTURES

J.G. Teng, Bing Zhang, Shishun Zhang and Bing Fu 182

EFFECT OF SALT CORROSION ON FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF BFRP TENDONS

Jianzhe Shi, Lining Ding, Xin Wang and Zhishen Wu 186

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR OF ECC LINK

SLABS REINFORCED WITH FRP

L.F. Zhang and Y. Zheng 71

FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF GFRP-RC CONTINUOUS BEAMS SUBJECTED TO

UNBALANCED LOADING

Mohammed El-Gendy, Hasanur Rahman, Karam Mahmoud and Ehab El-Salakawy 77

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NUMERICAL SIMULATION ON FLEXURAL CAPACITY OF HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE

BEAMS REINFORCED WITH FRP BARS AND STEEL FIBER UNDER CYCLIC

LOADING-UNLOADING

Cheng Shengzhao, Zhu Haitang, Cui Guanghao and Han Juhong 114

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON ENHANCEMENT OF ADDITIONAL RIB TO ANCHORAGE

PERFORMANCE OF FRP BAR

Ting Li, Jian Li, Xiuxiu Hu and Hong Zhu 158

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR OF SCC DECK SLABS

REINFORCED WITH BFRP BARS

L. Zhou, Y. Luo, Y. Zheng and S. Taylor 23

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF SCALED GFRP REINFORCED

CONCRETE BEAMS WITHOUT STIRRUPS USING LATTICE DISCRETE PARTICLE MODEL

Sina Khodaie, Fabio Matta and Mohammed Alnaggar 55

PERFORMANCE AT EVALUATED TEMPERATURE AND UNDER FIRE

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON FIRE PERFORMANCE OF RC BEAMS STRENGTHENED

WITH CFRP GRIDS

Z. Q. Liu, Q. R. Yue, R. Li and X. B. Chen 14

COMBINED EFFECTS OF SUSTAINED TENSILE LOADING AND ELEVATED

TEMPERATURES ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PULTRUDED BFRP PLATES

Zhongyu Lu, Guijun Xian, Bing Yuan and Jianhe Xie 95

THEORETICAL ANALYSIS ON TENSILE PROPERTIES OF BFRP AT ELEVATED

TEMPERATURE

Feng Liu and Zhongyu Lu 155

STRAIN RATE AND TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON THE TENSILE BEHAVIOR OF FIBER

REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES

Deju Zhu, Yiming Yao and Anling Li 43

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BEHAVIOUR OF THE FRP-TO-STEEL BONDED JOINTS UNDER ELEVATED

TEMPERATURE

Hao Zhou, Jose Manuel Urgel, Richard Emberley, Cristian Maluk and Dilum Fernando 149

A SIMULATION STUDY OF FIRE-DAMAGED REINFORCED CONCRETE SLABS

STRENGTHENED BY CARBON REINFORCED POLYMER RODS

Cao Nguyen Thi, Withit Pansuk, Lluis Torres and Cao Minh Tam 113

EFFECTS OF ELEVATED TEMPERATURES ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF

BASALT FIBERS AND BFRP PLATES

Wenxian Feng and Zhongyu Lu 156

EFFECTS OF ELEVATED TEMPERATURES ON THE THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES

OF A CARBON/GLASS-FIBER HYBRID COMPOSITE ROD

Bing Yuan and Zhongyu Lu 157

DURABILITY, MATERIAL TESTS, INSPECTION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

EFFECTS OF SEAWATER AND SEA-SAND ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF FRP-CONFINED

CONCRETE

(Invited Presentation)

G.M. Chen , Z.B. He , T. Jiang , J.F. Chen and J.G. Teng 185

DURABILITY STUDY OF FRPS SUBJECTED TO HYDROTHERMAL ENVIRONMENTS

Guijun Xian, Wanru Wang and Hui Li 190

DURABILITY OF CARBON FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER (CFRP) WITH COMBINED

USE OF SEAWATER SEA SAND CONCRETE(SWSSC)

F.Guo, S.Al-Saadi, R.K. Singh Raman and X.L. Zhao 20

EFFECT OF HIGH PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE IMMERSON ON THE PROPERTIES OF

THE GLASS-CARBON HYBRID FRP COMPOSITES

Chenggao Li, Guijun Xian and Hui Li 187

BOND STRENGTH OF CFRP MOLDED ON STEEL SURFACE BY VARTM TECHNOLOGY

AND ITS FIBER OPTIC SENSING

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Genki Mieda, Hitoshi Nakamura, Takahiro Matsui, Yutaka Ochi, Yosuke Mizuno, Kentaro

Nakamura and Yukihiro Matsumoto 78

AGING OF SOME FRP-CONCRETE JOINTS UNDER EXTERNAL PRESSURE

Manuel A G Silva, Hugo Biscaia and Carlos Chastre Rodrigues 46

LONG-TERM CREEP BEHAVIOR EXPERIMENT OF GFRP BARS UNDER DIFFERENT

SERVICE LOADS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Sun Can, Zheng Yu and Yang Jianbin 88

NUMERICAL DETERMINATION OF THE INTERLAMINAR SHEAR MODULUS OF GFRP

LAMINATES IN BRIDGE DECKS UNDER HYGROTHERMAL AGING EFFECTS

Chengwei Luo, Xu Jiang, Jie Song, Xuhong Qiang, M.H. Kolstein and F.S.K. Bijlaard 116

FABRICATION AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MULTI SCALE FRP WITH MCNTS

REINFORCED

Mingxia Shen, Pengpeng Duan, Shaohua Zeng, Yijiao Xue, Fengling Lu, Shangneng Chen and

Zhuying Wang 17

SPECIAL SESSION ON EFFICIENT USE OF FRP IN STRUCTURES

BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN OF REINFORCED AND PRETRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS

WITH FRP REINFORCEMENTS

(Invited Presentation)

Fei Peng and Weichen Xue 143

EXPERIMENT AND MODELING OF RC BEAMS SHEAR-STRENGTHENED WITH

HYBRID-ANCHORED CFRP U-STRAPS

C. Y. Zhou, J. Liu and Y. N. Yu 159

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF BOND BETWEEN NEAR-SURFACE MOUNTED CFRP STRIPS

AND CONCRETE UNDER FREEZE-THAWING CYCLES

Hui Peng, Yang Liu, C.S. Cai, Jun Yu and Jianren Zhang 163

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF RPC BOX GRIDER WITH UNBONDED PRESTRESSED CFRP

TENDONS

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Zhengmeng Huang, Li Jia and Zhi Fang 101

DEEP EMBEDMENT FRP SHEAR STRENGTHENING METHOD FOR CONCRETE SLABS

UNDER LOADS CLOSE TO SUPPORTS

J. B. Yang, Y. Zheng and C. Sun 24

EFFECT OF SHEAR SPAN/DEPTH RATIO ON DISTRIBUTION OF EFFECTIVE STRAIN OF

FRP STRIPS

Weiwen Li, Wei Liu, Christopher K. Y. Leung and Zeqi Huang 162

THE SINGLE STEEL FASTENER'S MECHANICAL PROPERTY OF HB-FRP

STRENGTHENED CONCRETE STRUCTURES

Feng Zhang, Lei Gao and Jiaqi Liu 160

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF FRP-TO-CONCRETE INTERFACIAL BOND BEHAVIORS

UNDER THE CONTROL OF A NOVEL END-ANCHORAGE SYSTEM

Y. W. Zhou, X. L. Chen, L. L. Sui, F. Xing and Y. F. Wu 164

REHABILITATION OF DAMAGED CIRCULAR HOLLOW SECTION (CHS) STEEL

COLUMNS UNDER COMPRESSION USING CFRP AND GROUT

C. Huang, T. Chen and X. Wang 11

FIELD APPLICATION, CASE STUDIES, INNOVATIVE USES OF FRP COMPOSITES

EFFECTIVE AND ECONOMICAL USE OF FRP FOR THE PRECAST CONCRETE INDUSTRY

Sami Rizkalla and John Carson 62

NUMERICAL SIMULATION ANALYSIS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF AREAS OF HIGH

STRESS-CONCENTRATION IN A TURBINE WIND-BLADE-REINFORCEMENTS

SCENARIOS

Venkadesh Raman, Monssef Drissi-Habti and Aghiad Khadour 109

ISOLATION OF SHEAR STRENGTH COMPONENTS IN REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS:

AN INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD

Biao Hu and Yufei Wu 133

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STATIC EXPERIMENT OF HOLLOW FRP SLUICE GATE UNDER TRIANGLE LOAD IN

WATER CONDITIONS

Y.X. Yan, W. Chen, J. He, B. Li and Z.X. Zeng 120

INCREASING LOAD RATING OF A DETERIORATED RC BRIDGE USING CFRP FABRIC

Abheetha Peiris and Issam Harik 7

EBR FRP-STRENGTHENED BEAMS: A FEA STUDY ON END-PLATE EFFECTS

Thanongsak Imjai, J. Phumkesorn, W. Pansuk and Reyes Garcia 151

STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENT OF A RC SLAB STRENGTHEND WITH CFRP COMPOSITE

USING IN-SITU LOAD TESTING

Thanongsak Imjai, Jirawat Phumkesorn, Poj Ancharoen and Reyes Garcia 154

CONFINEMENT/FILLED TUBES

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ACTIVELY AND PASSIVELY CONFINED CONCRETE

SUBJECTED TO CYCLIC AXIAL COMPRESSION

Pengda Li, Yufei Wu, Cheng Jiang, Yingwu Zhou and Feng Xing 102

MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF RC COLUMNS RETROFITTED WITH REINFORCEMENT

BUCKLING RESTRAINED DEVICE UNDER AXIAL CYCLIC COMPRESSION

Zeyuan Wang and Peng Feng 178

SULFURIC ACID DAMAGE TO CONCRETE WITH CFRP-WRAPPING

Yongcheng Ji and Yail J. Kim 38

STRENGTHENING OF SHORT STEEL COLUMN WITH CFRP AFTER LOCAL BUCKLING

Yuya Hidekuma, Kazuo Ohgaki, Yusuke Okuyama, Takeshi Miyashita and Akira Kobayashi 57

BEHAVIOUR OF SHORT RECTANGULAR CONCRETE COLUMNS CONFINED WITH CFRP

WRAPS

Asad-ur-Rehman Khan, Shamsoon Fareed and Muhammad A. Bhutto 86

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STRENGTHENING CONCRETE COLUMNS USING NSM CFRP LAMINATES

Koosha Khorramian and Pedram Sadeghian 74

MODELLING OF CONCRETE-FILLED FRP TUBES CONSIDERING NONLINEAR BIAXIAL

TUBE BEHAVIOR

P. Xie, G.Lin, J.G. Teng and T. Yu 184

PULTRUDED PROFILE REINFORCED CFFT COLUMNS FOR MARINE CONSTRUCTIONS:

BEHAVIOR UNDER ECCENTRIC COMPRESSION

Jie Wang, Peng Feng and Yuwei Wu 176

FRP-CONFINED HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE UNDER ECCENTRIC COMPRESSION

Ali Fallah Pour, Togay Ozbakkaloglu, Aliakbar Gholampour and Junai Zheng 146

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF FRP-CONFINED CONCRETE TEST DATABASES

Aliakbar Gholampour, Behrooz Keshtegar and Togay Ozbakkaloglu 147

FLEXURAL STRENGTHENING OF RC STRUCTURES

MOMENT-CURVATURE BASED MODELLING OF FRP-STRENGTHENED RC MEMBERS

ANCHORED WITH FRP ANCHORS

(Invited Presentation)

Scott T. Smith, Hayder A. Rasheed and Seo Jin Kim 170

FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF CONCRETE T-BEAMS STRENGTHENED WITH

FABRIC-REINFORCED CEMENTITIOUS MATRIX

Oluwafunmilayo Awani, Tamer El-Maaddawy, Ahmed El Refai and Najif Ismail 2

COMPARISON OF ANCHORAGE SYSTEMS FOR RC T-BEAMS STRENGTHENED IN

SHEAR WITH EB-CFRP

Georges El-Saikaly, Omar Chaallal and Brahim Benmokrane 29

FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITE BEAMS FORMED WITH GFRP-CONCRETE

DECKS AND STEEL MAIN GIRDERS

Hui Huang, Bin Jia, Wenwei Wang, Wen Guo and Chuntao Zhang 64

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USE OF ANCHORS IN FLEXURAL STRENGTHENING OF RC SLABS WITH FRP

W. Ibrahim and W. Abdallah 82

Bending behavior of wood beams strengthened with externally bonded BFRP sheets

Ke. Chen, Bin. Jia, Tong. Liu and Xueyuan Wang 138

NATURAL FIBRE COMPOSITES IN CONSTRUCTION

AXIAL PERFORMANCE OF NATURAL FLAX-SKINNED FRP SANDWICH PANELS WITH

VARYING SLENDERNESS RATIOS

(Invited Presentation)

L. CoDyre, K. Mak and A. Fam 27

TENSILE PROPERTIES OF FLAX FRP COMPOSITES

Dillon Betts, Pedram Sadeghian and Amir Fam 89

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF DAMAGED RC BEAMS JACKETED

BY JUTE FRP SHEET

Marin Shono, Tidarut Jirawattanasomkul, Nuttapong Kongwang and Tamon Ueda 129

RESPONSE OF FLAX FRP-SKINNED FOAM CORED TUBES TO AXIAL LOADS

Douglas G. Tomlinson and Amir Z. Fam 15

AXIAL COMPRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF NATURAL FLAX FRP TUBE ENCASED RECYCLED

AGGREGATE CONCRETE

Liang Huang, Chang Gao, Libo Yan and Bin Yan 139

EFFECT OF ORGANIC CLAY MODIFIED FLAX FIBER ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

AND INTERFACIAL PROPERTIES OF FIBER/EPOXY POLYMER COMPOSITES

Anni Wang, Damin Xia, Guijun Xian and Hui Li 188

STRUCTURAL ASSEMBLY USING FRP COMPOSITES

FLEXURAL PERFORMANCE STUDY OF ASSEMBLED GFRP-WOOD SANDWICH FLOOR

PANELS REINFORCED WITH INNOVATIVE LATTICE WEBS

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Huiyuan Shi, Weiqing Liu, Hai Fang, Yujun Qi and Junqing Hong 136

MODULAR GFRP WEB FLANGE SANDWICH ASSEMBLIES IN FIRE

Lei Zhang, Yu Bai, Wei Chen, Faxing Ding and Hai Fang 134

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF FOAM-FILLED LATTICE COMPOSITE PANELS UNDER

LOW-VELOCITY IMPACT

Bing Zhang, Hai Fang, Lu Zhu, Zhen Qian, Weiqing Liu and Yong Zhuang 137

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF FRP-CONFINED

SOFTWOOD TIMBER POLES

Ahmed Almutairi, Fujia Luo, Juri Jeske and Yu Bai 30

FRP JACKET ASSEMBLY FOR RETROFITTING CONCRETE STRUCTURES

Ali A. Mohammed, Allan C. Manalo, Ginghis B. Maranan,Yan Zhuge and John Pettigrew 118

FLEXURAL BEHAVIOUR OF GLUED GFRP TUBES FILLED WITH CONCRETE

Majid Muttashar; Allan Manalo, Warna Karunasena and Weena Lokuge 119

ENHANCEMENT EFFECT ANALYSIS OF LATTICE-WEBS TO GFRP-WOOD SANDWICH

BEAMS IN FLATWISE AND SIDEWISE BENDING

Hai Fang, Huiyuan Shi, Weiqing Liu, Yujun Qi and Ruili Huo 135

STRENGTHENING AND REINFORCING STRUCTURES USING PRESTRESSED FRP

DURABILITY OF AN RC BRIDGE STRENGTHENED WITH POST-TENSIONED NSM CFRP

STRIPS

Yail J. Kim, Jae-Yoon Kang, Jong-Sup Park and Woo-Tai Jung 39

DURABILITY AND PRESTRESS LOSS IN HIGHWAY BRDIGE BEAMS PRESTRESSED

WITH CFRP STRANDS

Nabil Grace, Kenichi Ushijima, Mohamed Mohamed, Kerolos Abdo and Mena Bebawy 59

EVALUATION OF PRESTRESS LOSSES DUE TO CONCRETE CREEP AND SHRINKAGE IN

CFRP PRE-TENSIONED CONCRETE MEMBERS

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A. Belarbi, H. Tahsiri, M. Dawood and B. Gencturk 125

EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT ON BEAMS PRE-TENSIONED AND POST-TENSIONED

WITH PRESTRESSING CFRP

A. Belarbi, P. Poudel, M. Reda, M. Dawood and B. Gencturk 126

OVERVIEW OF THE DESIGN, FABRICATION & CONSTRUCTION OF CFRP PRESTRESSED

CONCRETE GIRDER BRIDGE

Abheetha Peiris and Issam Harik 127

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF RC BEAMS STRENGTHENED WITH PRESTRESSED CFRP

PLATES

Xinzhe Min and Jiwen Zhang 124

NUMERICAL BEHAVIORS OF CONCRETE MEMBERS EXTERNALLY PRESTRESSED

WITH CFRP TENDONS EXPOSED TO FIRE

Fei Zhou, Jiwen Zhang and Zhennan Yang 128

SPECIAL SESSION:

LONG TERM PERFORMANCE OF FRP TO CONCRETE/STEEL BOND INTERFACES

MOISTURE EFFECTS ON FRP-CONCRETE INTERFACE PROPERTY AND BOND MODEL

(Invited Presentation)

Ueda Tamon, Justin Shrestha and Zhang Dawei 165

EFFECT OF CONCRETE STEEL BOLT ANCHORAGE ON COVER SEPARATION FAILURE

OF CFRP STRENGTHENED RC BEAMS

D. W. Zhang, H. F. Shi and W. L. Jin 31

CONCRETE COVER SEPARATION FAILURE OF CFRP STRENGTHENED RC BEAMS WITH

CFRP U-SHAPE ANCHORAGE

D. W. Zhang, H. F. Shi and W. L. Jin 35

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON INTERFACE PERFORMANCE BETWEEN BFRP GRIDS AND

CONCRETE SUBSTRATES

Weidong He, Xin Wang and Zhishen Wu 72

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INFLUENCE OF WATER IMMERSION ON THE BOND BEHAVIOR BETWEEN CFRP AND

CONCRETE SUBSTRATE

Yunfeng Pan, Guijun Xian, Jian-Fei Chen and Hui Li 192

INFLUENCE OF WATER IMMERSION ON THE BOND DURABILITY OF

CFRP-TO-CONCRETE AND FRCM-TO-CONCRETE INTERFACES

Fuwen Zhang, Jianguo Dai, Qingfeng Xu, Rundong Gao, Xi Chen and Zhuolin Wang 73

THEORETICAL MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF MOISTURE CONTENT OF

CFRP-CONCRETE INTERFACE BASED ON ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS

Yi Wang, Jun Deng, Chunjian Gong and Yan Xie 145

EFFECT OF CHLORIDES ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FRP REINFORCED

CONCRETE COLUMNS

Ao Zhou, Qiwen Qiu and Denvid Lau 152

THE BOND BEHAVIOR BETWEEN C-FRCM COMPOSITE AND CONCRETE UNDER THE

IMPRESSED CURRENT CATHODIC PROTECTION

Jihua Zhu, Weihao Lin, Piyu Chen, Tamon Ueda, Feng Xing, Liangliang Wei, Miaochang Zhu and

Meini Su 63

DETERMINATION OF MODE II SIZE-INDEPENDENT FRACTURE ENERGY OF CFRP

SHEET-TO-CONCRETE JOINTS

Liu Yang and Yang Shutong 40

FRP SANDWICH STRUCTURES AND PRESTRESSED FRP

EFFECT OF BASALT FRP CONNECTOR SIZE AND INSERTION ANGLE ON SHEAR

TRANSFER IN PRECAST CONCRETE INSULATED WALL PANELS

Douglas G. Tomlinson and Amir Z. Fam 16

FRP SHEAR TRANSFER MECHANISM FOR PRECAST CONCRETE SANDWICH PANELS

K. Hodicky, G. Sopal and S. Rizkalla 19

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EFFECTIVE WIDTH OF SANDWICH PANELS WITH MULTIPLE FRP SHEAR CONNECTORS

CONSIDERING PARTIAL DEGREE OF COMPOSITE ACTION

Mostafa Yossef and An Chen 54

THE APPLICATION TO BRIDGE ENCLOSURE SYSTEM OF FRP CURVED SANDWICH

PANELS WITH FOAM CORE

X. Meng, P. Feng and Y. Zheng 177

THE USE OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION OF HYBRID

SANDWICH PANELS

Gonçalo Escusa, José Sena-Cruz, Fábio Cruz, Eduardo Pereira, Isabel Valente and Joaquim Barros

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STRUCTURE DESIGN AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF ANCHORAGE SYSTEM TO

PRESTRESS CARBON FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER PLATES FOR STEEL BRIDGE

STRENGTHENING

Shicheng Wan , Qiao Huang and Zheng Ren 45

BOND AND INTERFACIAL STRESSES

EFFECTS OF EXISTING CRACKS ON FRP-TO-CONCRETE INTERFACIAL BEHAVIOR

Cheng Jiang, Baolin Wan and Yufei Wu 13

SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF A POLYURETHANE FOAM

Gonçalo Escusa, Fábio Cruz, José Sena-Cruz, Eduardo Pereira, Isabel Valente and Joaquim Barros

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MODEL UNCERTAINTY OF EXTERNALLY BONDED FRP-TOCONCRETE JOINTS

Q.Q. Yu, D.M. Zhang, B.L. Wan, X.L. Gu and C. Jiang 41

INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF LASER TREATMENT ON FRACTURE MODES AND

STRENGTH OF CFRP/AL6061 SINGLE LAP JOINT

Salah M. Khaleel, Bernard Rolfe, Riyadh Al-Ameri and Tim Hilditch 18

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REPAIR EFFECT OF FATIGUE CRACKS INITIATED AT OUT-OF-PLANE WELDED GUSSET

JOINTS USING PRE-TENSIONED CFRP STRIPS IN CONSIDERATION OF RESIDUAL

STRESS

Visal Thay, Hiroya Itoh, Hitoshi Nakamura and Fan Lin 33

EFFECT OF ADHESIVE STIFFNESS ON THE BOND BEHAVIOR OF FRP-TO-CONCRETE

INTERFACE

Jiawei Shi and Zhishen Wu 52

COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION OF THE INTERFACE BONDING BETWEEN OXIDIZED

CARBON FIBER AND EPOXY MOLECULES

Yanrong Xiao, Guijun Xian and Hui Li 189

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE BOND BEHAVIOR OF A TRANSVERSELY

COMPRESSED MECHANICAL ANCHORAGE SYSTEM FOR EXTERNALLY BONDED

REINFORCEMENT

Cristina Barris, Luís Correia and José Sena-Cruz 67

BOND BEHAVIOR OF EBR CFRP SYSTEMS IN CONCRETE: INFLUENCE OF SURFACE

PREPARATION

Sérgio Soares, José Ricardo Cruz, Pedro Fernandes and José Sena-Cruz 70

FRP STRENGTHENING OF STEEL STRUCTURES

CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT OF FRP-STEEL DOUBLE-STRAP JOINTS USING

BI-DIRECTIONAL CFRP FABRIC

A. Choudhary, A. Al-Mosawe and R. Al-Mahaidi 132

UPGRADING OF STEEL JETTY EXPOSED TO ABNORMAL LOADS BY POST-INSTALLING

LATERAL SUPPORT MEMBERS

Nazar K. Oukaili 1

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON REPAIR OF SECTION LOSS IN GIRDER END BY

EXTERNALLY BONDED CARBON FIBER SHEETS USING VARTM

Hitoshi Nakamura, Kouki Kobayashi, Ryosuke Kondo, Visal Thay, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Takahiro

Matsui and Yutaka Ochi 36

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FATIGUE TEST ON CFRP PLATE REPAIRED RECTANGULAR HOLLOW SECTION (RHS)

STEEL BEAMS WITH INITIAL CRACKS

Tao Chen and Ming Qi 117

BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITE CONCRETE-CASTELLATED STEEL BEAMS UNDER

COMBINED FLEXURE AND TORSION

Nazar K. Oukaili and Seezar Sh. Abdullah 110

PERFORMANCE UNDER SEISMIC,DYNAMIC AND IMPACT LOADING

FLEXURAL WEAKENING-SHEAR STRENGTHENING (FWSS) TECHNIQUE FOR THE

SEISMIC RETROFIT OF RC FRAMES: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

X.F. Nie, S.S. Zhang, J.G. Teng and G.M. Chen 183

OPTIMIZATION ANALYSIS AND FATIGUE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF LARGE

TONNAGE FRP CABLE ANCHOR SYSTEM

Bo Feng, Xin Wang and Zhishen Wu 66

3D FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR SLAB EFFECT ON THE SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF

FRP REINFORCED CONCRETE (FRC) FRAMES

Haitham A. Ibrahim, Mohamed F. M. Fahmy and Zhishen Wu 8

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF CARBON FIBER

REINFORCED POLYMER TENDONS

Jun Cheng, Jiwen Zhang and Xiaoya Zhang 12

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH INTO THE RESPONSE OF MASONRY SEGMENTAL BARREL

VAULTS TO STATIC AND DYNAMIC LOADING

J. Witzany, D. Makovička, R. Zigler, S. Urushadze, S. Pospíšil, J. Kubát, K. Kroftová and T. Čejka

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EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF AN RC EXTERIOR BEAM-COLUMN JOINT

BEHAVIOR STRENGTHENED WITH FRP

Md. Kudrat-E-Jahan, Fahim Ahmed, Shofiq Ahmed and Raquib Ahsan 115

INNOVATIVE USES OF FRP COMPOSITES

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THE PERFORMANCE OF BOND-TYPE ANCHORAGE FOR CFRP TENDONS WITH

PRETENSION METHOD

Tianyong Jiang, Zhong Peng and Zhi Fang 161

MECHANICAL ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENT STUDY OF A BOND ANCHORAGE

SYSTEM FOR PULTRUDED CFRP PLATE

Chenggao Li, Guijun Xian and Hui Li 194

TORSIONAL STRENGTHENING OF RC BEAMS USING NSM FRP TECHNIQUE WITH FRP

ROPE AND MORTAR

G. Al-Bayati, R. Al-Mahadi and R. Kalfat 6

A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR THE CONFINEMENT OF RECTANGULAR CROSS SECTION

REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS

Worajak Janwaen, Joaquim Barros and Inês Costa 60

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