FRP in China: the state of FRP research, design guidelines and application in construction

This paper presents the state of FRP research and design guidelines in construction in the mainland of China. It covers structural strengthening with FRP sheets and plates, reinforced concrete structures with FRP bars and tendons, all FRP structures and bridges, and FRP-concrete composite structures. crease the flexural debonding strength (Ref. 5). Figure 3 shows that the flexural debonding strength and the deformation capacity can be increased with a uniform arrangement of U-jackets. A thorough theoretical study with the finite element method on the debonding behavior was then undertaken (Ref. 6). A more detailed report on research on debonding is given in another paper to be presented at CICE 2004 (Ref. 7).