Abstract
AbstractStrengthening of both aging and modern infrastructure has become necessary as a result of increased load demand and/or to restore the capacity of a member. For example, flat slabs (commonly utilized in parking garages) are subjected to an aggressive environment and increased traffic loads and additionally require strengthening and/or repair. Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) sheets and laminates externally bonded to concrete slabs around the slab-column joint are widely used to enhance the strength of flat slabs. Slab-column connections are most often subjected to eccentric loading; however, most reported studies have focused on retrofitted slab-column connections subjected to concentric loads. This paper aims to fill this knowledge gap and experimentally investigate the effect of eccentric loading on the behavior of slab-column connections retrofitted by externally bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets. Six full-scale (2,000×1,000×150-mm) interior slab-column connections subjected to ...
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