Design for strengthening works using STAAD or Bentley products
Design for strengthening works using STAAD or Bentley products
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Hello Everybody,
I have a question related to strengthening design of mostly concrete members. For example if we have a beam or column or slab having deficient strength and we want to reinforce it using FRP wrapping / plates etc or by steel plate bonding or by increasing the section size, then how this strengthening information be put in our analysis model? Especially for the case of CFRP. Is there any software that allows us to bond the CFRP to any RCC member (model and simulation) and then calculate the stresses based on enhanced properties of that RCC member? Any thoughts / ideas strongly appreciated.
Regards
I have a question related to strengthening design of mostly concrete members. For example if we have a beam or column or slab having deficient strength and we want to reinforce it using FRP wrapping / plates etc or by steel plate bonding or by increasing the section size, then how this strengthening information be put in our analysis model? Especially for the case of CFRP. Is there any software that allows us to bond the CFRP to any RCC member (model and simulation) and then calculate the stresses based on enhanced properties of that RCC member? Any thoughts / ideas strongly appreciated.
Regards





RE: Design for strengthening works using STAAD or Bentley products
RE: Design for strengthening works using STAAD or Bentley products
Thanks for response. I have done some modelling and simulation using ANSYS (advanced finite element package) but it is quite laborious and complicated task to get reasonable results from such an advanced and complex package. Also with such FEM package you concentrate mostly on one element i.e. individual beam, column etc and can't easily see the overall picture and effects of strengthening on structure as a whole.
RE: Design for strengthening works using STAAD or Bentley products