Deformation adjustment of concrete beams laminated with carbon fiber mats

Abstract

A carbon fiber mat is a sheet composed of intercrossing short carbon fibers, which has more stable and lower electrical resistivity compared with dispersed short carbon fiber mixed in cement. Thereby carbon fiber mats can be used in cement and then make cement structures exhibit obvious electro-thermal effect. In this paper, Electro-thermal properties of carbon fiber mats and an elementary strengthening experiments against deformation of carbon fiber mat cement laminated beams were researched. Firstly, electro-thermal properties of carbon fiber mats were studied. Secondly, carbon fiber mat laminated beams are designed and experiments were conducted to get temperature and deformation responses driven by the electro–thermal effects of the carbon fiber mat cement laminated beams. Finally, some experiments of deformation adjustment were done according to the above experimental results. The results show that deformation of concrete beams upon loads can be reduced even removed, and the beams can be strengthened against deformation.