Concrete has long been used as a building material for its high compressive strength, good durability and low cost. However, its well-known Achilles’ heel is its brittleness and limited tensile ...

The Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) rebar industry is about thirty years old. The industry started by molding aramid and carbon fibers with various thermoset resins, and then expanded to glass fibers ...

While many of us might think that concrete structures such as bridges simply stand unaided for decades at a time, the fact is that they require maintenance as often as once every five years. An ...

The proposed rapid evaluation framework is trained based on a large number of samples from the database and drawing tests. The characteristics of the bonding stress-slip constitutive are learned using ...

If structural engineers have their way, building codes will take a leap forward in the next couple of years to allow the use of higher-strength 80-ksi reinforcing steel in concrete shear walls in high ...

The ICC in Japan is joining the ERC, the sectoral alliance of EuCIA dedicated to the promotion of fibre-reinforced polymer rebar for concrete reinforcement. This new partnership extends the ERC's ...