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Strengthening And Evaluation Of Reinforced Concrete Beams For Flexure By Using External Steel Reinforcements, Innovative Research Publications Irp India, Akhtar Gul, Bashir Alam, Fayaz A Khan, Yasir Irfan Badrashi, Khan Shahzada

Innovative Research Publications IRP India

The most implementable and favorable technique, used for the flexural strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) beams is the attachment of external steel members. Attachment of external steel sections or fiber reinforced polymers is considered as a common technique used for the enhancement of flexural capacity of the existing structural elements. To investigate and evaluate the flexural capacity of reinforced concrete beams, strengthened with external steel bars, a research study was carried out and is presented in this paper. Three reinforced concrete beams reinforced with minimum reinforcement ratio were constructed and tested. Two beams were strengthened by attaching external steel bars …