Fibre Composite Materials in Structural Engineering

Hours of lectures, Wednesday 15h45-17h45 h

ETH Hönggerberg, HIL E7

 - Introduction and Overview, Material Properties

 - Mechanics of a Lamina: Micro Mechanics, Macro Mechanics

 - Laminate Theory, Ply by Ply Failure Analysis

 - Lamina and Laminate Theory; First written midterm exam

 - Design of FRP Profiles and All FRP Structures, Excercise, Case Studies (Moslem Shahverdi)

 - Externally Bonded FRP Reinforcement for RC Structures: Overview

 - Flexural strengthening of concrete Structures by Externally Boded FRP
   Reinforcement: Swiss Code 166 and other codes, Meeting point for transport
   to Empa on 30.11. and 14.12.2022 (Christoph Czaderski)

 - Externally Bonded FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Structures:
   Shear Strengthening;  Column Confinement

 - Strengthening of metallic member using CFRP Materials (Hossein Heydarinouri)

 - Externally Bonded FRP Reinforcement for Timber Structures / 
   Structural Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks (Robert Widmann / Glauco Feltrin)

 -  Application of Externally Bonded FRP Reinforcement in the Empa laboratory      

 - FRP-Reinforce Concrete Design (Internal Reinforcement) 
   Application Examples

 - Laboratory experiments and Empa structural laboratory tour, Second written intermediate exam

 - Manufacturing Methods; Testing Methods
   Additive Manufacturing of Fibre Reinforce Polymers