About the authors
| First name, Middle name, Last name, Scientific degree, Scientific rank, Current position. Full and brief name of the organization, The organization address. | Tarek Elsayed – associate professor Hesham Haggag – assistant professor Awad El Hashimy – assistant professor Ahmed Hassan – assistant lecturer Faculty of Engineering, Mataria, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt |
| Title of the article | BEHAVIOR OF SLABS REINFORCED USING SQUARE GFRP REBARS |
| Abstract. | Corrosion of steel bars is a common problem encountered in steel reinforced concrete structures. The repair of steel corrosion costs a lot of money and time. The use of fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) reinforcing bars instead of steel rebars is a reasonable solution of the corrosion problem. In this paper, a study was made to enhance the behavior of slab specimens reinforced using GFRP rebars. The parameters included in this study were, the geometry of bar cross-section, the characteristic strength of concrete, reinforcement percentage, and the percentage of polypropylene fibers in the concrete mixtures. Test specimens were nine, one-way, slabs. The study revealed that reinforcing one-way slabs in this research using GFRP rebars, square in croess-section, is effective in enhancing slabs` failure mode, cracking and ultimate loads, and deflections than using GFRP rebars circular in cross-section. Test results were analyzed and compared together and the corresponding conclusions and recommendations regarding the behavior and design of such slabs were drawn. |
| Keywords. | Square rebars, GFRP rebars, Polypropylene fibers, slabs. |
| For citations: | Tarek Elsayed, Hesham Haggag, Awad El Hashimy, Ahmed Hassan BEHAVIOR OF SLABS REINFORCED USING SQUARE GFRP REBARS // Izvestiya KGASU. 2010. №1(13) P.78-88. |
