Pretreatment of Woven Jute FRP Composite and Its Use in Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams in Flexure
Table 2
Summary of test beams.
Beam group
Wrapping configuration
Strengthening material
Beam designation
Type of strengthening
Strengthening scheme
Group A
Nil
Nil
Control specimen Con1, Con2
No strengthening
Nil
Group B
Full wrapping 90°, single layer
Jute FRP
JF1, JF2
Flexural strengthening throughout using jute FRP
U-Wrap, three-sided wrap
Group C
Strip wrapping 90°, single layer 62 mm strips at 124 mm C/C (at a clear gap of 62 mm) so as to achieve 50% of total area strengthening, with end clear gaps of 49 mm.