Strengthening Design of Reinforced Concrete with FRP
Half a century after their commercial introduction, composite materials are of widespread use in many industries. Applications such as aerospace, windmill blades, highway bridge retrofit, and many more require designs that assure safe and reliable operation for 20 years or more. Using composite materials, virtually any property, such as stiffness, strength, thermal conductivity, and fire resis-tance, can be tailored to the user’s needs by selecting the constituent materials,
their proportion and geometrical arrangement, and so on. In other words, the engineer is able to design the material concurrently with the structure.
Also, modes of failure are much more complex in composites than in classical materi- als. Such demands for performance, safety, and reliability require that engineers consider a variety of phenomena during the design. Therefore, the aim of the Composite Materials: Design and Analysis book series is to bring to the design engineer a collection of works written by experts on every aspect of composite mate- rials that is relevant to their design.
The variety and sophistication of material systems and processing techniques have grown exponentially in response to an ever-increasing number and type of applications. Given the variety of composite materials available as well as their con- tinuous change and improvement, understanding of composite materials is by no means complete.
Therefore, this book series serves not only the practicing engineer, but also the researcher and student who are looking to advance the state of the art in understanding material and structural response and developing new engineering tools for modeling and predicting such responses.
Thus, the series is focused on bringing to the public existing and developing knowledge about the material–property relationships, processing–property rela- tionships, and structural response of composite materials and structures.
The series cope includes analytical, experimental, and numerical methods that have a clear impact on the design of composite structures.
