ABSTRACT
Unreinforced masonry structures have proven to be vulnerable during seismic events. Therefore, provisional or permanent interventions are often needed in post-seismic scenarios. In response to this request, a large interest has been given to fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs) in the recent past. Among all the use of pultruded FRPs is becoming an attractive solution for realizing structural profiles for civil engineering applications. In fact, they guarantee structural reliability and efficiency under different loading conditions. As a consequence, the issue related to the mechanical characterization of pultruded FRPs is a key-aspect for their proper design. The present paper aims to report the testing procedure for the determination of the main properties of glass pultruded specimens: inter-laminar shear, flexural, pin-bearing and tensile strength, as well as, tensile elastic modulus. This paper discusses the influence of some parameters on the obtained results and the relevance of the investigated properties in relation to the design requirements and the available standards and codes.
