Direct shear strengthening of NSC and SCC using NSM CFRP and steel bars

Abstract EN

Failure in direct shear is sudden and catastrophic in concrete structures, several techniques have been developed for shear strengthening of push-off specimens representing direct shear.

In this research, the effectiveness of Near-surface mounted (NSM) FRP and steel bars as a strengthening technique for direct shear in normal strength concrete (NSC) and self-compacted concrete (SCC) are studied.

As a result of the experimental work, it was observed that the NSM steel bars increased the shear capacity by 48 and 44% for both types of concrete NSC and SCC respectively, while the NSM CFRP rods increased the shear capacity by 30% and 33% for both NSC and SCC respectively.

It was also observed that strengthening at 90° was more effective in terms of shear strength compared to 45° with a difference in the range of 8% for NSC and 5% for SCC.

The analytical results are very close to the experimental ones.