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Kai Zhang1, Wenrui Yang2, Huiying Li2
1Department of Road and Materials, Jiangxi Transportation Institute, Nanchang 330012, China.
Abstract:
GFRP bars will be damaged due to a series of irreversible hygroscopic chemical reactions under humid and hot curing environmental conditions. The multiple factors related to the moisture absorption model were established through the moisture absorption test of GFRP bars embedded in steam-curing concrete, which considered different curing temperatures, different thicknesses of the protective layer, and different diameters of GFRP bars. Semi-reliability probability damage assessment of GFRP bars embedded in steam-curing concrete was described by introducing the reliability and stochastic theory. Subsequently, the tensile test of GFRP bars was carried out to verify the feasibility of the damage assessment. The results showed that the moisture absorption curves of GFRP bars were basically in line with Fick's law. In addition, the influences of the curing temperature, the thickness of the protective layer, and the diameter on moisture absorption performance were presented. The semi-reliability probability damage assessment model of GFRP bars embedded in steam-curing concrete beams adequately considered the multiple factors related to moisture absorption and the uncertainty and randomness of the influencing factors during the process of moisture absorption.
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