Flexural Strengthening Using Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer )CFRP) Strip on Reinforced Concrete (RC) Skew Beam

This report is experimentally conducted to determine the flexural cflcct of skew beams if CFRP is applied in the bottom middle of the beam. In the experiment, the author will test two types of skew tramms which have an angle of 15" and 20°each. In both type of skew, the author will also text with different arrangements of CFRP application on the skew beam. the method used to text the beams in this experiment will he the double point loads test perfumed in 1 /3 and full span length applied on the skew beams. The arrangement of the links will be 100mm from centre to centre and 1" for the four bars of reinforcement. The size of the beam used will be 230mm x 159mm x 2000mm. The investigation found out that full application of (CFRP on the bottom of the beam will give highest elasticity among other two beams (control beams and 1/3 CFRP beam) but lower the ductility while 1/3 of the full length of the beams will give higher elasticity compare to control beam and retain some of ductility to the beams