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Prestressed Members with External Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Tendons

Design, Assessment, and Modeling

  • 1st Edition - February 3, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Tiejiong Lou, Yanan Wu, Sergio M.R. Lopes
  • Language: English

Prestressed Members with External Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Tendons: Design, Assessment and Modelling provides an overview of using FRPs, including how to predict the short… Read more

Description

Prestressed Members with External Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Tendons: Design, Assessment and Modelling provides an overview of using FRPs, including how to predict the short-term and long-term behavior of externally prestressed concrete or steel-concrete composite members, their second-order effects, and how to examine the effectiveness of using FRP tendons instead of steel tendons for external prestressing. As external prestressing is considered to be one of the most powerful techniques in strengthening of existing structures, this book provides a comprehensive resource on the topics covered.

The conventional use of prestressing steel is, however, naturally prone to corrosion. The best strategy to solve completely the corrosion problem is the use of nonmetal materials instead of prestressing steel. Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are ideal materials used for external tendons for their excellent corrosion resistance, high strength and low weight.

Key features

  • Covers the use of FRP tendons when compared to those with external steel tendons, including key design issues
  • Addresses important topics in the field, including the second-order effects of immediate and sustained loads
  • Examines the stress in external tendons, moment redistribution, linear transformation of external cables, and prestress secondary moments
  • Covers long-term deformation prediction

Readership

Researchers and working engineers in the fields of: building, bridge engineering and construction materials, Senior graduates and post graduates involved in civil and structural engineering courses

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Finite element modeling at immediate loads

3. Second-order effects of externally prestressed concrete members

4. Simply supported prestressed concrete members with external FRP tendons

5. Moment redistribution in continuous prestressed concrete members with external CFRP tendons

6. Linear transformation and secondary moments

7. Continuous normal- and high-strength concrete members

8. Using FRP rebars instead of steel rebars in simply supported concrete members with external tendons

9. Using FRP rebars instead of steel rebars in continuous concrete members with external tendons

10. Externally prestressed steelconcrete composite girders

11. Using FRP reinforcement in steelconcrete composite girders

12. Finite element modeling at long-term sustained loads

13. Long-term behavior of prestressed concrete members with FRP/steel tendons

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 4, 2025
  • Language: English

About the authors

TL

Tiejiong Lou

Professor Lou is a Professor of Structural Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology since December 2016. He was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK (2017-2019), a FCT Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2010-2016), a Research Fellow at Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2008-2010), and a Research Assistant/Associate. He has published 49 articles in leading international journals in the field of civil engineering.
Affiliations and expertise
CEMMPRE, ARISE, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

YW

Yanan Wu

Yanan Wu is a PhD student in Structural Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology. She holds a Master's degree in 2022 at Xi 'an University of Technology, and has published two articles in the field of civil engineering.
Affiliations and expertise
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

SL

Sergio M.R. Lopes

Professor Lopes holds a PhD degree, gained in 1991 from the University of Leeds, UK. He has published more than 80 articles in leading international journals in the field of civil engineering. His research interests cover: behaviour of structural concrete; high strength structures; non metallic reinforcement; non-cementitious concretes; composite timber-concrete structures
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Civil Engineering at CEMMPRE, ARISE, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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