During the past decades, FRP strengthened RC structures have attracted worldwide interest in both application and research. Nowadays, as more and more infrastructures are being suffered from severe corrosions due to harsh and extreme environments, the durability of FRP strengthened RC structures has generally emerged as the most important issue in research. Thus, the paper presents the latest p...

Glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) composite materials are a feasible alternative to engineering materials and are being extensively used in variety of engineering applications. Accordingly, the need for accurate machining of composites has increased enormously. During machining, the obtained surface roughness is an important aspect. The present investigation deals with the study and develop...

Even though steel bar is a conventional reinforcement in soil stabilization systems, the problem of corrosion of steel may lead to vast damages especially in aggressive environments. In the past decades, Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) materials have offered an effective solution to overcome the corrosion problem. Despite numerous bond stress-displacement models for reinforcements in concrete, t...

Drilling is an hole making process in metal cutting operation performed by extrusion which finds wide application in various industries for manufacturing components using metals and non metals. This process is applied widely in assembly of components or elements, where processing challenges are severe issue such as to maintain surface integrity, ovality, machining time, Metal Removal Rate etc.,...

A full-scale experimental program was used in this study to investigate the structural behavior of novel insulated concrete sandwich wall panels (SWPs) reinforced with grid-type glass-fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) shear connectors. Two kinds of insulation-expanded polystyrene (EPS) and extruded polystyrene (XPS) with 100 mm thickness were incased between the two concrete wythes to meet the in...

Worldwide, wind turbine stocks are ageing and questions of reuse recycling particularly rotor blades become urgent. Especially, rising blade wastes face lacking good options exact quantification is difficult due to information gaps on the size, mass material composition. In a combined approach, expected waste quantified localized national level for Germany until 2040. Fibre-reinforced plastics ...

Abstract At present, the need to make use of industrial waste materials is increasing due their harmful effects on environment. In present work, behavior hybrid reinforced T-Beam with partial substitution recycled rubberized concrete studied. The finite element modeling by using ANSYS version 15 program. It contains also all required steps needed create models that were prepared study beams (RR...

A full-scale experimental test was conducted to analyze the composite behavior of insulated concrete sandwich wall panels (ICSWPs) subjected to wind pressure and suction. The experimental program was composed of three groups of ICSWP specimens, each with a different type of insulation and number of glass-fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) shear grids. The degree of composite action of each specime...