Publication detail

Additional Strengthening of Concrete Structures with Contemporary Nano-Materials

VAŇURA, T. ŠTĚPÁNEK, P. ŠVAŘÍČKOVÁ, I. FOJTL, J.

Original Title

Additional Strengthening of Concrete Structures with Contemporary Nano-Materials

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Methods of external strengthening of concrete make use of elements of very high tensional strength glued on tensioned surface of it. These elements may be of metal, carbon fibers (CFRP), glass fibers (GFRP) or others, being ordinarily of very good mechanical properties. Presentation of several short-term experiments as so as long-term experiments executed either in past or just now being in motion are briefly descript. Short of history is also included. Some elementary knowledge about this know-how is described here with brief categorization of used materials. But these high strength elements are attached to concrete most frequently by epoxy resins. However, epoxy resins are of low Youngs modulus and therefore a higher rate of creep may have influence on long-term behavior of such external strengthening. In order to verify this idea experimentally a special space saving arrangement of tests is put on in part of this paper. General reference to existing practical realizations is added, too.

Keywords

carbon fiber (CFRP) and glass fiber (GFRP) reinforced materials; external concrete strengthening; epoxy-resins creep; long-term test arrangement

Authors

VAŇURA, T.; ŠTĚPÁNEK, P.; ŠVAŘÍČKOVÁ, I.; FOJTL, J.

Released

6. 6. 2004

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Location

Cape Town, South Africa

Pages from

122

Pages to

128

Pages count

7

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT16785,
  author="Tomáš {Vaňura} and Petr {Štěpánek} and Ivana {Švaříčková} and Jan {Fojtl}",
  title="Additional Strengthening of Concrete Structures with Contemporary Nano-Materials",
  booktitle="Progress in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation",
  year="2004",
  series="2004",
  number="1",
  pages="122--128",
  publisher="University of Cape Town",
  address="Cape Town, South Africa"
}