PSI - Issue 17

B. Moussaoui et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 17 (2019) 979–985 B.Moussaoui& Y.Bouamra & K.Ait tahar & al / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000 – 000

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b)

Fig 3. Element meshing of materials: (a) Concrete cylinder, (b) GFRP.

32cm

16cm

8cm

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Fig 4. View of specimens

3.2. Numerical results and discussions A comparison of the values of peak stress of the concrete specimens partially or fully confined by GFRP obtained by the experiment and by the FE analysis is show in Fig 5.

Stress exp (MPa)

Stress Simul ( MPa)

10 15 20 25 30 35 40

35.44

32.34

31.43

28.31

27.97

24.93

24.5

24.14

Stress ( MPa)

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Specimens

Fig 5. Comparison of results: Experiment vs. modeling.