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Fen Zhou1,2, Huanhui Liu3, Yunxing Du4,5

  • 1Key Laboratory for Green & Advanced Civil Engineering Materials and Application Technology of HunanProvince, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China. zhoufen@hnu.edu.cn.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
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Keywords:
carbon textile reinforced mortardebonding failuremulti-cracking patternprestresssteel fibersuniaxial tensile tests

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