Comparison between FRP and steel plating of reinforced concrete beams

Very advanced design rules have already been developed for adhesive bonding steel plates to reinforced concrete beams in order to prevent premature de bonding by either shear peeling or flexural peeling. The aim of this study is to determine experimentally whether these design rules that were develop ed for steel plated beams and slabs, can be applied to fiber reinforced pla stic (FRP) plated beams. This paper compares, with the help of test results , the shear and flexural debonding mechanisms of steel and FRP plated beams . (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.