ABSTRACT
Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP), especially Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) has gained more and more attention in strengthening engineering structures for its high strength-to-weight ratio, stiffness-to-weight ratios, and corrosion resistance. The study of steel structure strengthening by CFRP started relatively late and was less compared to that on the strengthening of concrete structure by CFRP. Recent studies have found that external bonding with CFRP can effectively improve the flexural (Deng et al. 2004, Linghoff & Al-Emrani 2010), tensile (compressive) (Shaat & Fam 2004, Sawulet et al. 2012), and antifatigue (Bocciarelli et al. 2009, Wu et al. 2012) performance of the steel structure.
