Ahmed F. Kadhum; Jian Yang; Sabih Z. Al-Sarraf
Abstract
The experimental program in this paper is divided into two groups: the firstone consists of seven composite beams; six of them were strengthened with oneand two CFRP strips and with ...
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The experimental program in this paper is divided into two groups: the firstone consists of seven composite beams; six of them were strengthened with oneand two CFRP strips and with three different percentages of full beam length(40%, 60%, and 100%). The second group consists of five composite beamsstrengthened at the face of the bottom flange with CFRP strips fastened to the steelsection by steel bolts with two different length proportion of CFRP strips to beamsoffit (60%, and 100%).The analytical investigation included the use of three dimensionalnonlinear finite elements to model the performance of the composite beams using(ANSYS 8.0) computer program.
