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Non-Uniform Stress Distribution In Frp-Wrapped Circular Concrete Columns Under Uniform Axial Deformation, S Q. Li, J F. Chen, Tao Yu, J G. Teng
Non-Uniform Stress Distribution In Frp-Wrapped Circular Concrete Columns Under Uniform Axial Deformation, S Q. Li, J F. Chen, Tao Yu, J G. Teng
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
The confinement of concrete columns using bonded FRP wraps has become a popular retrofit technique. Through extensive research in the last two decades, many stress-strain models have been developed for concrete in FRP-wrapped circular columns. All these models assume that the stress state is axisymmetric in an FRP-wrapped circular concrete column under concentric axial compression. This implies that the FRP wrap is assumed to be axisymmetric in geometry, but in reality such axisymmetry is not realised due to the existence of an overlapping zone. This paper presents a finite element investigation into the stress state in FRP-wrapped circular concrete columns …