Abstract
To adapt to harsh engineering environments, the use of structural components with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) grid-reinforced ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is considered a new development trend. Twelve FRP grid-reinforced UHPC I-beams are fabricated to investigate the effects of the thicknesses of FRP grids (0 mm, 1 mm, 3 mm, and 5 mm) and the steel fiber contents of UHPC (0%, 1%, and 2%) on their flexural performance. Four-point bending tests are conducted to obtain the failure modes, load-deflection characteristics, and strain responses of each testing beam, and a simplified calculation method for cracking loading and flexural bearing capacity is proposed. The results reveal that the increase in FRP grid thickness, the ultimate load bearing capacity of FRP grid-reinforced UHPC structural beams increases and the ductility also can be enhanced. The presence of steel fiber effectively inhibits the cracking and increases the first cracking load of the beam during the test process, although its influence on the ultimate bearing capacity is limited. Besides, until to the cracking stage, there is no noticeable change in the tensile strain of the FRP grids as the applied load increases. It has been used to simplify theoretical calculations, which shows good agreement with the experimental results.
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