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Intelligent Repair of Existing Concrete Structures
Advanced composites offer some advantages over traditional procedures for repairing concrete structures, due to their optimal corrosion properties, low weight, and decreasing costs. Thin, cured laminates may be externally bonded, or dry fabrics can be wet applied and in situ cured over the concrete structure, conforming to its surface irregularities. Fiber optic strain sensors, specially Bragg gratings, show some advantages when compared to conventional strain gauges: absolute measurements, spectrally encoded output, no EMI, no drift (long‐term stability), low size, multiplexing capability, and their ability to be embedded into laminates without degradation. The combination of both techniques is easy and offers important advantages. The long‐term mechanical behavior of the repair may be checked and information on environmental degradation could be obtained. In this way, a repaired smart structure is obtained comparable to a new one. On the short term, information on the stress transfer from the concrete to the laminate is obtained, and the validity of models is verified. Tests on a concrete beam repaired with carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) and instrumented with Bragg gratings are reported, showing the possibility of the intelligent repair.
Intelligent Repair of Existing Concrete Structures
Advanced composites offer some advantages over traditional procedures for repairing concrete structures, due to their optimal corrosion properties, low weight, and decreasing costs. Thin, cured laminates may be externally bonded, or dry fabrics can be wet applied and in situ cured over the concrete structure, conforming to its surface irregularities. Fiber optic strain sensors, specially Bragg gratings, show some advantages when compared to conventional strain gauges: absolute measurements, spectrally encoded output, no EMI, no drift (long‐term stability), low size, multiplexing capability, and their ability to be embedded into laminates without degradation. The combination of both techniques is easy and offers important advantages. The long‐term mechanical behavior of the repair may be checked and information on environmental degradation could be obtained. In this way, a repaired smart structure is obtained comparable to a new one. On the short term, information on the stress transfer from the concrete to the laminate is obtained, and the validity of models is verified. Tests on a concrete beam repaired with carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) and instrumented with Bragg gratings are reported, showing the possibility of the intelligent repair.
Intelligent Repair of Existing Concrete Structures
Casas, Joan R. (author) / Ramos, Gonzalo (author) / Diaz‐Carrillo, Sebastián (author) / Alfredo Guemes, J. (author)
Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering ; 17 ; 43-52
2002-01-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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