Analysis of cracked steel members reinforced by pre‐stress composite patch

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures - Tập 26 Số 1 - Trang 59-66 - 2003
Pierluigi Colombi1, A. Bassetti2, Alain Nussbaumer2
1Department of Structural Engineering, Milan Technical University, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
2Institute of Steel Construction, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

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ABSTRACTPre‐stress bonded composite patch is a promising technique to reinforce steel member damaged by fatigue. The effectiveness of this technique was verified by fatigue tests on notched steel plates. Results showed that the application of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) strips and, eventually, the introduction of a compressive stress by pretension of the CFRP strips prior to bonding produced a significant increment of the remaining fatigue life. In this paper, the stress intensity factor in the notched plates is computed by a two‐dimensional finite element model in connection with the three‐layer technique in order to reduce the computational effort. Due to high stress concentration at the plate crack tip, debond is assumed at the adhesive–plate interface. The goal is to illustrate the influence of some reinforcement parameters such as the composite strip stiffness, the pre‐stress level, the adhesive layer thickness and the size of the debonded region on the effectiveness of the composite patch reinforcement.

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Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Tập 26 Số 1

59-66

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