Strengthening of Conventional Beams Using Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composite: An Literature Review

Abstract

Traditionally used material is well known, concrete; it is having advantages such as it is economic, long lasting and its sustainability. It is easy to apply and having great compressive strength. In present time the civilization depends upon the available ranges of concrete or reinforced concrete (RC) structures, ranging from domestic structures to heavy structures. The paper studied literature review for use of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites for increasing service load requirements. FRP is studied for variety of applications with concrete to form a concrete composite. The paper focuses on variety of problems which can be solved with FRP composites such as: load variations, FRP plate thickness variation, FRP material variation, etc.