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

This report is experimentally conducted to determine the flexural effect 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°euch. 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 CFRP applied on the skew beams. Thc arrangement of the links will be 100mm
from centre to centre and I" for the four bars of rcinCorcement. 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 hewn 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