Proceedings
of the
5th
International
Specialty
Conference
on
FIBRE REINFORCED
MATERIALS
28
-29
August 2008, Singapore
Editors
T.S. Lok P. Prochazka
'With
the support
of:
• The ConferenceonOUR WORLD IN CONCRETE & STRUCTURES
(Presented
6y:
5th
International
Specialty
Conference
onTableofContents v
KEYNOTE PAPERS
Thick-wall FRC structuresofenvelopefor
underground
power stations 1 Vladimir Dolezel and Petr Prochazka*Influenceof stiffnessofFRCtunnel
lining
onbearing capacity using coupled modeling
9PetrProchazka* and Jirina Trckova
Strengthening
ofconcretestructures with FRP materials-influence of thermal 17degradation
Petr
Stepanek,
David Horak and IvanaSvarickova
TECHNICAL PAPERS
Active CFRP-based confinementstrategiesfor RC columnswith rectangular 29 crosssections
Marta A B
Agante*,
Eduardo N S Julio,Joaquim
A O Barros and Joio M C SantosStudyingthedurability properties ofFRPcomposites 37
Zahra
Aghighi*
and Mohammad BabahaExperimental investigationof effectsofaddition of steeland
polypropylene
fibers 41 onconcreteSaaed Ahmad* and Shahzad Aslam
Performance of reinforcedconcrete beam
containing
steel fibres 51 TehminaAyub* and S.F.A RafeeqiApplication
ofcomposites
in offshore and marine structure 59MohammadBabaha*and Zahra
Aghighi
Effect of steel fibreson torsion and shear of reinforced concrete beams 67
E I El-Niema*
Effectofhybridfibrereinforcementonthe
ductility performance
ofrcbeams 81 S Eswari*,P NRaghunath
and KSugunaStudying
the effect ofFRP rollon selfcompacting
concrete 93 Bahareh Salmani Ghabel*, Mojtaba Hokmabadi Ghoshouniand S.Mohhamad Ali Seyyed Hejazi
TECHNICALPAPERS
The
study
of concretewithindustrialsteel-slag
aggregatesbasedonthe 99 substitution methodHanAylie*and Sri
Tudjono
Theexperimental
investigation
of flexural behavior of reinforced concrete beams 105strengthened
withprestressed
CFRP platesHHassanitabar, M H A
Beygi*,
S Fallahian,PShafigh
and NRanjbarMalidarehInvestigation
into behaviorofreinforced concrete beamsexternally strengthened
113 with carbon fiber reinforcedpolymers (CFRPs).
Sung-Hu Kim*, Kwang-Soo Kim, Kyoung-Bong
HanandSun-Kyu ParkApplication
of hollowplant
fibres torepair
concrete cracks 121H
Liu*,
SQian,J WvandeKuilen, W F Gard, M R deRooij
andWN J UrsemFlexural behaviorof one-way concrete slabs reinforced with GFRP rebars 133 E M Lotfy*,S M
Elzeny
and A M RashadInteractionbetween CFRP side platedto r.cbeams and concrete under 143 shear action
Louay
Mahmoud*,NShafiq,
M Fadhil and Waleed ThanoonFibres usedassecondaryreinforcement -material for concrete 153 V B Pandhare, D P Kulkarni and T D Deshmukh*
Reliability
assessment of fibre reinforcedpolymer (FRP)
confined reinforced 159concrete columnsusingmonte carlo simulation P N
Raghunath*,
KSuguna
and VNagaradjane
Malaysia
firstultra-high performance
concreteprestressedmotorway bridge:
169experimental
verificationfen LeiVoo*and S J Foster
Shear
strength
of steel fiber reinforced ultra-high performanceconcretebeams 177 withoutstirrups
Yen LeiVoo*and S J Foster
Concrete slabs with short
polypropylene
fiberand Reinforced with GFRP rebars 185 S IZaki*,K SRagab
and E M LotfyIndex of Authors vii
Contents ofpreviousconferences ix
(1997,
1999,2003 and2006)
Secretariat Office
CI-PREMIER PTE LTD
150 Orchard Road#07-14,Orchard Plaza, Singapore238841
Tel:
(065)67332922
Fax:(065)62353530
E-Mail: [email protected]ISBN: 978-981-08-0413-8