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Guidance Documents
ACI Committee 440, "State-of-the-Art Report on Fibre Reinforced Plastic

Reinforcement for Concrete Structures", American Concrete Institute,

February, 1996

 

ACI Committee 440, "Provisional Design Recommendations for Concrete

Reinforced with FRP Bars", American Concrete Institute, Draft 3, January,

1998

BRE Digest 442: Architectural Use of Polymer Composites, CRC, 1999.

BRE IP 7/99: Advanced Polymer Composites in Construction, CRC, 1999.

CHBDC - Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code, "Section 16: Fibre Reinforced Structures", Final Draft, July, 1996

Clarke J.L. (Ed), Structural design of polymer composites - EUROCOMP design code and handbook, E & F N Spon, London, 1996.

Clarke J. L., O'Regan D. P. and Thirugnanenedran C., "EUROCRETE Project, Modification of Design Rules to Incorporate Non-Ferrous Reinforcement", EUROCRETE Project, Sir William Halcrow & Partners, London, 1996

Concrete Society technical report 55. Design Guidance for Strengthening Concrete Structures using Fibre Composite materials., Concrete Society, 2000, ISBN 0 946691 84 3

CBDG Technical Guide 3. The use of Fibre Composites in Concrete Bridges., Concrete Society, 2000.

fib bulletin 10 "Bond of Reinforcement in Concrete", prepared by Task Group Bond Models, chapter 7 on FRP, August 2000 pp315-394

Forest. M.J., Analysis of Plastics, RAPRA Review Report Vol13 No5 Report 149, 2002
http://www.polymer-books.com/.

Highways Agency BD 37/88. Loads for highway Bridges, Dept of transport, London, 1988.

Highways Agency Advice Note BA 30/94, Strengthening of Concrete Bridges using externally bonded plates, London, Dept of Transport, 1994.

Institution of Structural Engineers, A guide to the structural use of adhesives, the Institution of Structural Engineers, London, 1999.

Institution of Structural Engineers, "'Interim Guidance on the Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Fibre Composite Reinforcement", Published by SETO Ltd, 116 pages, August 1999.

 

JSCE, "Application of Continuous Fiber Reinforcing Materials to concrete Structures", Concrete Library, No. 72, 1992, published in Japanese

 

JSCE, "State-of-the-Art Report on Continuous Fiber Reinforcing Materials", Concrete Engineering Series 3, October 1993

 

JSCE, "Recommendation for Design and Construction of Concrete Structures using Continuous Fiber Reinforcing Materials", Concrete Engineering Series 23, 1997

 

London Underground Ltd, Fire safety performance of materials used in the Underground, Engineering Standard E 1042 A3, London, March 1998.

Mooney P.J., RAPRA Technology Ltd, An Analysis of the Glass Fibre-reinforced Thermoset Processing Business, 2002.

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, SI 1994/3247, HMSO.

How to Obtain Documents

The above documents can be obtained on loan through most good libraries or can be purchased through the following on-line bookshops:

NetComposites Comprehensive bookshop for all major titles relating to composites

BRE Bookshop Comprehensive bookshop for all major titles relating to construction


Future Design Guidelines

TMR, "Development of Guidelines for the Design of Concrete Structures, Reinforced, Prestressed or Strengthened with Advanced Composites (ConFibreCrete)", Training and Mobility of Researchers, Research Network TMR "ConFibreCrete", http://www.shef.ac.uk/~tmrnet/.

fib Task Group 9.3, "FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Structures", International Federation for Structural Concrete, Commission 9, Task Group 9.3, http://www.labomagnel.ugent.be/fibTG9.3/.