ABSTRACT
This study aims to evaluate the strength and ductility enhancement resulting from longitudinally bonded Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) laminates anchored at the column-stub junction. The anchoring system was previously successfully tested on small concrete blocks (Sadone et al. (2010)) but they needed to be tested on representative-scale structures. The originality of the proposed anchoring system is that it is not an additional device but the extension of the Carbon FRP (CFRP) laminate bonded to achieve the flexural strengthening. To study the effectiveness of the proposed anchoring system, real scale reinforced concrete (RC) columns were tested under a quasi-static loading path intended to be representative of a seismic solicitation.
