Fibre Composite Materials in Structural Engineering

Hours of lectures, Wednesday 15h45-17h30

 ETH Hönggerberg, HIL E10.1

 - Introduction and Overview, Material Properties

 - Mechanics of a Lamina: Micro Mechanics, Macro Mechanics

 - Laminate Theory

 - Lamina and Laminate Theory; First written midterm exam

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

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

 - Flexural strengthening of concrete Structures by Externally Bonded FRP
   Reinforcement: Swiss Code 166 and other codes, Introduction to the
   laboratory experiments (Christoph Czaderski)
   SIA 166 Notations 
   Meeting point for Transport to Empa
   Einführungsveranstaltung SIA166 (2024)
   "Klebebewehrungen für die Verstärkung bestehender Tragwerke"

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

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

 - Structural Health Monitoring (Yunus Harmanci)
   Externally Bonded FRP Reinforcement for Timber Structures (Robert Widmann)

 - Application of Externally Bonded FRP Reinforcement in the Empa laboratory

 - FRP-Reinforced Concrete Design - Internal Reinforcement 

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

 - Manufacturing Methods; Testing Methods