Glass fiber reinforced ceramic or concrete block: numerical and experimental evaluation

• Grant number: 06/00917-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: July 24, 2006
• End date: December 23, 2006
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Nonmetallic Materials
• Principal Investigator: Guilherme Aris Parsekian
• Grantee: Guilherme Aris Parsekian
• Host Investigator: Nigel Graham Shrive
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Calgary, Canada

Abstract

The research aims to evaluate the use of glass fiber reinforced polymer for ceramic or concrete block strengthening through a numerical and experimental analysis. First the finite element program ABAQUS will used to model experimental tests already done at the University of Calgary, allowing non-linear behavior of the materials and slipping of interfaces. From this micro-modeling we intend to study how much of the wall surface needs to be filled with fiber, to evaluate stresses at corners and ends, possibility of slipping, anchorage length and thickness of the fiber layer. Models of new configurations of experimental tests will then be proposed. Finally new experimental tests will be done. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PARSEKIAN, GUILHERME A.; FONSECA, FERNANDO S.; SHRIVE, NIGEL G.. Strength of Hollow Concrete Masonry Reinforced with Sprayed Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer. JOURNAL OF COMPOSITES FOR CONSTRUCTION, v. 18, n. 6, DEC 2014. (06/00917-8)