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Wanyun Yin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

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Mike Schlaich - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • carbon fiber reinforced polymer for cable structures a review
    Polymers, 2015
    Co-Authors: Yue Liu, Bernd Zwingmann, Mike Schlaich
    Abstract:

    Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) is an Advanced Composite Material with the advantages of high strength, lightweight, no corrosion and excellent fatigue resistance. Therefore, unidirectional CFRP has great potential for cables and to replace steel cables in cable structures. However, CFRP is a typical orthotropic Material and its strength and modulus perpendicular to the fiber direction are much lower than those in the fiber direction, which brings a challenge for anchoring CFRP cables. This paper presents an overview of application of CFRP cables in cable structures, including historical review, state of the art and prospects for the future. After introducing properties of carbon fibers, mechanical characteristics and structural forms of CFRP cables, existing CFRP cable structures in the world (all of them are cable bridges) are reviewed. Especially, their CFRP cable anchorages are presented in detail. New applications for CFRP cables, i.e., cable roofs and cable facades, are also presented, including the introduction of a prototype CFRP cable roof and the conceptual design of a novel structure—CFRP Continuous Band Winding System. In addition, other challenges that impede widespread application of CFRP cable structures are briefly introduced.

Wendel Sebastian - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • prediction of interface shear stresses in elastoplastic moment varying zones of Advanced Composite Material strengthened concrete members
    Journal of Structural Engineering-asce, 2002
    Co-Authors: Wendel Sebastian
    Abstract:

    Adhesive bonding of plates of Advanced Composite Materials (ACMs) to reinforced concrete structural members is increasingly used to strengthen such members in flexure. The integrity of the strengthened member under load depends on the level of hybrid structural action developed between the concrete member and the plate through the adhesive. High shear stresses at the adhesive-to-concrete interface trigger fracture of the concrete, and so induce failure by loss of this hybrid action. In zones of varying moment along the member, these high interface shear stresses can arise from the requirement, after the steel yields, for high axial stress gradients to develop in the ACM plate. In these moment-varying zones of elastoplastic activity, the steel and concrete are into their nonlinear regimes of Material behavior, and the height of the neutral axis changes nonlinearly along the member. These nonlinear effects, which generate complex behavior in elastoplastic zones, are not represented in existing approaches fo...