Fibre Composite Materials in Structural Engineering

Hours of lectures, Wednesday 15h45-17h30

ETH Hönggerberg, HIL E7

 - Introduction and Overview, Material Properties

 - Mechanics of a Lamina: Micro Mechanics, Macro Mechanics

 - Laminate Theory

 - Lamina and Laminate Theory; First written midterm exam

 - Externally Bonded FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Structures: Overview
   Flexural Strengthening Basics

 - Flexural strengthening of concrete Structures by Externally Bonded FRP
   Reinforcement: Swiss Code 166 and other codes, Introduction to the
   laboratory experiments (Christoph Czaderski/Yunus Harmanci)
   Meeting point for Transport to Empa on 29.11.2023 and 13.12.2023

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

 - Externally Bonded FRP Reinforcement for Timber Structures / 
   Braking Forces in the Assessment of Road Bridges (Robert Widmann / Matteo Breveglieri)

 - Externally Bonded FRP Reinforcement for Metallic Structures (Hossein Heydarinouri)

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

 - Application of Externally Bonded FRP Reinforcement in the Empa laboratory /
   Cylinder Strengthening / Content of the second exam     

 - FRP-Reinforce Concrete Design (Internal Reinforcement)

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

 - Manufacturing Methods; Testing Methods