Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites for Infrastructure Applications: Focusing on Innovation, Technology Implementation and Sustainability

✍ Scribed by Luke Lee, Ravi Jain, Larry Stephenson (auth.), Ravi Jain, Luke Lee (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Series: Strategies for Sustainability
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines current issues of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in civil infrastructure. The contents of this book are divided into two parts. The first part engages topics related to durability and service life of FRP composites and how they contribute to sustainability. The second part highlights implementation and applications of the FRP composites with an emphasis on bridge structures. An introductory chapter provides an overview of FRP composites and its role in a sustainable built environment highlighting the issues of durability and service life followed by a current review of sustainability in infrastructure design.​

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-21
Sustainability in Infrastructure Design....Pages 23-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Environmental Degradation of Interlaminar Shear Strength in Carbon/Epoxy Composites....Pages 55-75
Predicting Hygrothermal Degradation of Composites in Accelerated Testing....Pages 77-89
Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation and Condensation on Static and Dynamic Compressive Behavior of Nanophased Glass/Epoxy Composites....Pages 91-111
FRP Reinforced Concrete Exposed to Elevated Temperatures: The Role of Viscosity on Bond Strength....Pages 113-122
Impact Resistance of FRP Panels....Pages 123-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Steel-Free Bridge Decks Reinforced with FRP Composites....Pages 143-162
Load Testing and Load Distribution of Fiber Reinforced, Polymer Strengthened Bridges: Multi-year, Post Construction/Post Retrofit Performance Evaluation....Pages 163-191
The Utilization of Recycled Thermoplastic Composites for Civil and Military Load Bearing Applications....Pages 193-218
Structural Response, Health Monitoring, and Performance Evaluation of CFRP Post-Tensioned, In-Service, Long-Span, Precast/Prestressed Box Girder Bridges....Pages 219-236
Life-Cycle Cost Comparison for Steel Reinforced Concrete and Fiber Reinforced Polymer Bridge Decks....Pages 237-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-280

✦ Subjects

Sustainable Development; Building Materials; Civil Engineering