Carbon fiber reinforced composites proved to be very successful in construction during a quarter of a century

Meier, Urs; Brönnimann, Rolf; Anderegg, Peter; Terrasi, Giovanni P.; Motavalli, Masoud; Czaderski, Christoph

Carbon fiber reinforced composites proved to be very successful in construction during a quarter of a century

Meier U, Brönnimann R, Anderegg P, Terrasi GP, Motavalli M & Czaderski C

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Meier, U., Brönnimann, R., Anderegg, P., Terrasi, G. P., Motavalli, M., & Czaderski, C. (2016). Carbon fiber reinforced composites proved to be very successful in construction during a quarter of a century (p. (8 pp.). Presented at the ECCM17 - 17th European conference on composite materials. .

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The application of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) in civil engineering was before 1991 unknown. Therefore the authorities responsible for construction did not want to rely only on the laboratory experiments made in the 1980ties. They asked for the long-term structural health monitoring (SHM) of the pioneering CFRP applications. This was also in the interest of the involved R&D community. The results of this SHM over the last quarter of a century proved the outstanding performance and reliability of CFRP in civil engineering

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Carbon fiber reinforced composites proved to be very successful in construction during a quarter of a century

Author(s)

Meier, Urs (100 Directorate)

Brönnimann, Rolf (405 Reliability Science and Technology)

Anderegg, Peter (405 Reliability Science and Technology)

Terrasi, Giovanni P. (304 Mechanical Systems Engineering)

Motavalli, Masoud (303 Structural Engineering)

Czaderski, Christoph (303 Structural Engineering)