Journal of
Faculty of Civil Engineering

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CONTEMPORARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING 2016 , 2016.y., pp. 307-313

	DOI: 10.14415/konferencijaGFS 2016.030
	UDC: 624.072.336 : 519.87
	CC-BY-SA 4.0 license
	Author : Vitanov, Vladimir
	Summary:
	The conventional earthquake resistant design of reinforced concrete structures advises use of shear walls as effective way to add earthquake resistance to the reinforced concrete frames. A problem arises with structures erected decades ago following design rules which are by today’s standards obsolete, inadequate and inefficient. Major earthquake events from around the world have shown the design deficiencies of these structures by inducing extensive damages in the structural members. One of the newest and most promising strengthening techniques is the use of externally bonded FRP strips and sheets. Different modeling approaches have been employed in these designs. This paper presents a new material model that could be used to model FRP strengthened RC member. The formulated model is implemented into ANSYS. The model results are compared to the available experimental data for verification.
	Keywords:
	FRP strengthening, ANSYS, reinforced concrete, numerical model