Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Department of Civil and Industrial Construction, Kabul Polytechnic University, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Research Article   
  Structural Strengthening/Repair of Reinforced Concrete (RC) Beams by Different Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Materials - A State-of-the-Art Review
  Author(s): Sifatullah Bahij, Safiullah Omary*, Francoise Feugeas and Amanullah Faqiri
  
  In the last few decades, premature deterioration of reinforced concrete (RC) structures has become a serious problem because of severe environmental actions, overloading, design faults, and materials deficiencies. Therefore, repair and strengthening of RC elements in existing structures are very important to extend their service life. There are numerous methods for retrofitting and strengthening of RC structural components such as; steel plate bonding, external pre-stressing, section enlargement, fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) wrapping, and so on. Although these modifications can successfully improve the load-bearing capacity of the beams, they are still prone to corrosion damage resulting in failure of the strengthened elements. Therefore, many researchers used cementitious materials due to its low-cost, corrosion resistance, and resulted in the improvement of the tensile and fatigue.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/jcde.2020.10.354

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