In-Plane Seismic Strengthening of Masonry Walls with Sprayed Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Q. Gu ◽  
B. Peng ◽  
F. Li ◽  
Z. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Glass Fibre ◽  
Masonry Walls ◽  
Seismic Strengthening ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Glass Fibre Reinforced

Strengthening of a concrete masonry wall subject to lateral load with sprayed glass-fibre-reinforced polymer

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1315-1330 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Haddad ◽  
E. Shaheen ◽  
G. A. Parsekian ◽  
D. Tilleman ◽  
N. G. Shrive
Keyword(s):  
Glass Fibre ◽  
Lateral Load ◽  
Masonry Wall ◽  
Masonry Walls ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Concrete Masonry ◽  
Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Glass Fibre Reinforced ◽  
Failure Line

Unreinforced hollow concrete masonry walls could be used to construct basements if strengthened to resist the lateral load. Two face-shell-bedded concrete masonry walls were constructed, 3 m high by 6 m long. As a simple strengthening technique, one wall was sprayed with glass-fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) on one side to a nominal average thickness of 5 mm. The walls were subjected to distributed point loading simulating increasing pressure from top to bottom of the wall. Support conditions were applied to simulate the walls being part of a basement. The plain wall failed with a failure line cracking pattern at a lateral load of 44 kN. The sprayed wall failed in a much more brittle fashion when the load reached 330 kN. The GFRP suffered a mode III tear at the bottom course. The results indicate that spraying a plain masonry wall with GFRP increases its ability to resist lateral load considerably, and that the process could be improved in terms of both the thickness of the layer and the area of wall covered to achieve a specific target. The two walls were analyzed using the yield-line, fracture-line, and failure-line methods. The failure-line method was improved by accounting for the stiffness orthotropy of masonry and gave the most accurate prediction of these plastic design methods. A finite element model of the masonry provided the most accurate prediction of capacity.

scholarly journals The Effect of Layers and Bullet Type on Impact Properties of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) Using a Single Stage Gas Gun (SSGG)

2014 ◽  
Vol 564 ◽  
pp. 428-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.N.A. Safri ◽  
Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan ◽  
N. Razali ◽  
Shahnor Basri ◽  
Noorfaizal Yidris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Energy ◽  
Glass Fibre ◽  
Impact Test ◽  
Single Stage ◽  
Gas Gun ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Glass Fibre Reinforced ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this work is to study the best number of layer with the higher impact energy using Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP). The number of layers used in this study was 25, 33, 41, and 49. The impact test was performed using Single Stage Gas Gun (SSGG) for each layers given above with different bullets such as blunt, hemispherical and conical bullets. The gas gun pressure was set to 5, 10, 15 and 20 bar. All of the signals captured from the impact test were recorded using a ballistic data acquisition system. The correlation between the impact energy in terms of number of layer and type of bullet from this test are presented and discussed. It can be summarise that as the number of layer increases, impact energy also increases. In addition, from the results, it was observed that by using different types of bullets (blunt, hemispherical, conical), there is only a slight difference in values of energy absorbed by the specimen.

Quasi-Static Indentation Behaviour of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer

2014 ◽  
Vol 970 ◽  
pp. 317-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Mohd Saiful Azwan ◽  
Yahya Mohd Yazid ◽  
Ayob Amran ◽  
Behzad Abdi
Keyword(s):  
Glass Fibre ◽  
Polyester Resin ◽  
Loading Rates ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Static Indentation ◽  
Indentation Tests ◽  
Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Glass Fibre Reinforced ◽  
Chopped Strand Mat

Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) plates subject to quasi-static indentation loading were studied. The plates were fabricated from three layers of chopped strand mat glass fibre and polyester resin using vacuum infusion process. Indentation tests were conducted on the plates with loading rates of 1 mm/min, 10 mm/min, 100 mm/min and 500 mm/min using a hemispherical tip indenter with diameter 12.5 mm. The plates were clamped in a square fixture with an unsupported space of 100 mm × 100 mm. The loads and deflections at the indented location were measured to give energy absorption-deflection curves. The results showed that the loading rate has a large effect on the indentation behaviour and energy absorbed.

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