Abstract
In several countries, manhole covers made of steel are being stolen, with significant economic losses for private and public entities, and even causing accidents. In this work, a new manhole cover is developed using fibre-reinforced cementitious (FRC) materials and glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) gratings. Since the GFRP gratings are immune to corrosion, and FRC is a relatively low-cost material, manhole covers in FRC reinforced with GFRP gratings are durable and not so appealing to be stolen as those made from steel. An experimental program with manhole cover specimens made with two types of FRC and two types of GFRP gratings was executed by investigating the strength, stiffness and post-cracking tensile capacity of the FRCs and the stiffness and flexural capacity of the two GFRP gratings. It was demonstrated that the developed manhole cover concept can be of class A15 up to D400 according to the recommendations of BS EN 124:1994.
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