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Mottram, J. Toby (2011) Does performance based design with fibre reinforced polymer components and structures provide any new benefits and challenges? Structural Engineer, 89 (6). pp. 23-27. ISSN 1466-5123.
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Abstract
Reviewing the current status towards the exploitation of fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs) in structural engineering the author considers the benefits and challenges for using performance based design with this newer construction material. This paper reports historical case studies in the context of explaining how processing technologies and design know-how have slowly been developing, and perhaps even leading to a level of maturity. By way of the review of FRP components and structures it is found that we do not yet possess the prescriptive rules that dominate the current execution of civil engineering works. One outcome from the review is to identify that such rules will be necessary to allow routine design of frame structures of universal (standard) FRP shapes. The author introduces the benefits and challenges towards the adoption of Performance Based Design (PBD) and finds that targeted research and development has/is using the PBD philosophy to produce bespoke FRP components and systems towards a growing number of applications in structural engineering.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TH Building construction |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > Engineering | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Fibrous composites, Fiber-reinforced plastics, Polymers | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Structural Engineer | ||||
Publisher: | Structural Engineers Trading Organisation Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1466-5123 | ||||
Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | 89 | ||||
Number: | 6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 23-27 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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