The use of non-corrosive reinforcements in the place of
steel reinforcements has therefore been focused as an alternative
to improve the life span of the concrete structures. Fibre
Reinforced Polymer (FRP) reinforcements offer many advantages
over steel reinforcements including resistance to electrochemical
corrosion, high strength to weight ratio and easy in fabrication
and electromagnetic insulating properties. Further, the use of
hybrid FRP reinforcements, in lieu of conventional steel
reinforcements requires better understanding under different
parametric conditions. Therefore the present study deals mainly
with the behaviour of Concrete Deep beams with and without
openings reinforced internally with hybrid type Fibre Reinforced
Polymer (FRP) reinforcements under static loading conditions. In
structural applications, deep beams are commonly used as large
span structures such as transfer girders in buildings, bridges,
foundation walls, shear walls and offshore structures. In this
study,high strength concrete deep beams are investigated. Among
the eight beams, four beams are reinforced internally using
conventional reinforcements with and without web opening, four
beams are reinforced internally using hybrid FRP reinforcements
with and without web openings. Different parameters like, high
strength concrete, web opening positions (Top, Middle and
Bottom), span sprinkled FRP hybrid reinforcements are
considered. Based on this study, static load carrying capacities
and their modes of failures of deep beams reinforced internally
with FRP hybrid type reinforcements for various web openings
positions are compared by finite element modelling using ANSYS
software with the existing theories for better under standings.
Based on the modelling and theoretical work, final conclusions of
the present study are derived.