Fire Endurance of Concrete Elements Reinforced With GFRP Bars

[EN] Fire engineering is primarily to prevent loss of life or injury during a fire. Obviously the best way to achieve this is to prevent ignition, minimizing fire spread and smoke, dying the fire before it has fully developed. When this is not possible, when the fire is fully developed, structural elements must guarantee sufficient fire resistance. If containment methods fail, structural integrity must stay for a period long enough to evacuate occupants and firemen put out it. This investigation studies the bearing capacity of GFRP reinforced concrete element, its fire resistance, variations of its mechanics characteristics and its bonding to concrete when temperature rises, together others changes that may occur in the element.Almerich Chulia, AI.; Molines Cano, JM.; Martín Concepcion, PE.; Rovira Soler, JA. (2013). Fire Endurance of Concrete Elements Reinforced With GFRP Bars. Advanced Materials Research. 651:181-186. doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.651.181S181186651FARDIS M.N.; KHALILI, H. Concrete encased in fibreglass-reinforced plastic,. ACI Journal Vol. 78 (38) pp.440-446. (1981).TANANO, H.; MASUDA, Y; TOMOSAWA, F. Characteristics and performance evaluation methods of continuous fibre bars – state of the art studies on fire properties and durability of continuous fibre reinforced concrete in Japan,. Proceedings 4th International Symposium on Non-Metallic (FRP) Reinforcement for Concrete Structures, pp.523-531.ROVIRA, J.A. Modelo teórico de secciones de hormigón armadas con redondos GFRP,. Universdad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. (2009).ROVIRA, J. Barra a base de polímeros reforzados con fibras para el armado del hormigón,. Patente nº ES 2 235 011, (2010).ANDERBERG, Y. Spalling phenomena of HPC and OC,. NIST Workshop on fire performance of high strength concrete. Gaithersburg, Sweden. (1997).ALMERICH CHULIA, A. Diseño, según estados límites, de estructuras de hormigón armado con redondos de fibra de vidrio GFRP,. Tesis, Univ. Politécnica Valencia, Spain (2010)