@inproceedings{9a197faaa7ab4d73ac2d7881ede438e5,
title = "Strengthening effect of externally bonded CFRP sheets on pretensioned PC beams with ruptured strands in flexure",
abstract = "This paper presents the flexural strengthening effect of CFRP sheets on prestressed concrete (PC) beams having strands ruptured at the midspan. The increase in the number of sheets resulted in the reduction of tensile stress of the remaining prestressing strands. However, the increase in the number of sheets with insufficient sheet lengths did not provide a higher flexural strength because of the debonding from the sheet ends. The increase in the sheet lengths not only prevented the latter failure but also significantly improved the beam stiffness. More importantly, the debonding of the sheets was avoided by wrapping the transverse sheets for the whole beam span.",
author = "K. Matsumoto and Nguyen, {T. T.D.} and J. Niwa and A. Iwasaki and Y. Sato and T. Tsutsumi",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1201/b17618-190",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138001206",
series = "Life-Cycle of Structural Systems: Design, Assessment, Maintenance and Management - Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2014",
publisher = "CRC Press/Balkema",
pages = "1283--1289",
editor = "Hitoshi Furuta and Frangopol, {Dan M.} and Mitsuyoshi Akiyama",
booktitle = "Life-Cycle of Structural Systems",
note = "4th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2014 ; Conference date: 16-11-2014 Through 19-11-2014",
}