1st Edition

Design of Fibre-Polymer Composite Structures Worked Examples for European Technical Specification CEN/TS 19101: 2022

528 Pages 90 Color & 26 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The European Technical Specification CEN/TS 19101: 2022, Design of fibre-polymer composite structures , published in November 2022, constitutes a milestone for the use of fibre-polymer composites in civil engineering structures. These 15 worked examples provide designers with step-by-step application examples that illustrate the practical use of the Technical Specification. Eleven examples are... Read more

 “Type A” Examples

A1. ULS verifications of a balanced symmetrical laminate subjected to in-plane and out-plane loading

José Sena-Cruz

A2. ULS verifications of a balanced symmetrical laminate subjected to in-plane and out-plane loading - preliminary design

Wouter De Corte

A3. ULS verifications of a simply supported fibre-polymer composite profile with double symmetric H-cross-section subjected to axial compression

Mário Sá and João Ramôa Correia

A4. ULS and SLS verifications of a simply supported fibre-polymer composite profile with double symmetric I-cross-section subjected to a uniformly distributed transverse load

Mário Sá and João Ramôa Correia

A5. ULS and SLS verifications of a simply supported composite sandwich beam with complex balsa core

Wendel Sebastian, Matthew Poulton, and Andre Pitt

A6. ULS and SLS verifications of a simply supported fibre-polymer composite homogeneous-core sandwich panel subjected to a uniformly distributed transverse load

Mário Garrido and João Ramôa Correia

A7. ULS and SLS verifications of a simply supported web-core sandwich panel subjected to a uniformly distributed transverse load

Mário Garrido and João Ramôa Correia

A8. ULS verification of a double-lap adhesive joint with pultruded adherends: Stress-based approach

Marko Pavlovic and Angeliki Christoforidou

A9. ULS verification of a double-lap adhesive joint with pultruded adherends: Fracture mechanics’ approach

Angeliki Christoforidou and Marko Pavlovic

A10. ULS verifications of simply supported fibre-polymer composite profiles with double symmetric ‘H’ and ‘I’ cross-section subjected to axial compression

Salvatore Russo

A11. ULS & SLS verifications of a simply supported fibre-polymer composite profile with double symmetric rectangular hollow (RHS) cross-section subjected to a uniformly distributed transverse load

João Ramôa Correia and Mário Sá

 “Type B” Examples

B1. Ultimate Limit State (ULS) verifications for bolted connections of pultruded profiles of a truss bridge with a span length of 13,50 m

Matthias Oppe and Reza Haghani

 B2. ULS verifications of a glass fibre-polymer composite footbridge

Emilie Leprêtre, Samuel Durand, Kévin Brunellière et al.

 B3. Design of a vacuum infused composite web-core sandwich road bridge

Liesbeth Tromp, Martijn Veltkamp, Ane de Boer et al.

B4. ULS verification of a pultruded fibre-polymer composite spatial frame structure

Salvatore Russo

Biography

João R. Correia is Full Professor of Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, the IABSE Prize of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering and the Distinguished Young Researcher Award of the International Institute for FRP in Construction.

Thomas Keller is Full Professor of Structural Engineering and the head of the Composite Construction Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Jan Knippers is Director of the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) and a director of the Cluster of Excellence "Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture"at the University of Stuttgart, and founder of Helbig Advanced Engineering Stuttgart.

J. Toby Mottram is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Engineering at The University of Warwick, UK.

Carlo Paulotto is a manager in the Offshore Wind department of Ferrovial Construction, Madrid.

José Sena-Cruz is an Associate Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal, where he is also Assistant Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), and Director of the European Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Advanced Structural Analysis and Design using Composite Materials.

Luigi Ascione is contract professor of Structural Mechanics at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Salerno, Italy and former chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Discipline Stream Leader for Civil Engineering and Vice-Rector for Buildings.