Study on Flexural Performance of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with FRP Grid–PCM Composite Reinforcement

Abstract

To study the flexural performance of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) grid–polymer cement mortar (PCM)-composite-strengthened RC beams, the finite element numerical simulation of FRP grid–PCM composite RC beams is carried out using ABAQUS to analyze the effects of the amount of FRP grid reinforcement, the type of FRP grid material, and the geometry of FRP grid on the flexural performance of reinforced concrete beams and to establish the flexural capacity calculation formula of FRP grid–PCM-reinforced RC beams in case of debonding failure, based on analysis of the influencing factors. The results show that increasing the reinforcement of the FRP grid and increasing the stiffness of the FRP grid can improve the flexural bearing capacity of RC beams, and the change of FRP grid geometry has little effect on the flexural bearing capacity of RC beams. The established formula for calculating the flexural bearing capacity of FRP grid-reinforced concrete beams can better predict the flexural capacity of reinforced concrete beams under peeling failure.