Geopolymer Concrete Structures with Steel and FRP Reinforcements

Geopolymer concrete (GPC) structural members reinforced with FRP reinforcement have some advantages in resisting forces compared to conventional concrete or steel tubular members. Among the most important are the high strength and bending stiffness, fire and impact performance and favourable, construction ability and durability. Geopolymer concrete has high resistance to corrosion to chloride and sulphate slats in a marine environment and the FRP reinforcement is non-corrosive. Unfortunately, there are no significant applications of this new structural elements worldwide, partly due to the lack of the understanding of their behaviour and insufficient design provisions in different design manuals. Accordingly, this book focuses on their static and impact structural behaviour in particular compressive, bending strength and combined action of GPC members and is based on published studies in the last two decades. OPC and GPC members will be very soon currently recommended structural members in modern buildings. Provides comprehensive review of up-to-date recent advances on Geopolymer Concrete (GPC) reinforced with steel and FRP bars and stirrups construction with a summary of over 100 papers published in the last decade Comparison in the behaviour and failure modes between Geopolymer Concrete (GPC) structures and Ordinary Portland Concrete (OPC) structures Deep explanation for important concepts such as bond, confinement, fracture of stirrups and buckling of FRP bars, this will accomplished by detailed illustrations Clear explanation for important failure modes such as concrete crushing, concrete tensile cracking, steel yielding, local buckling of FRP bars, this will accomplished by detailed illustrations and photos form actual experiments performed by the authors and other researchers In depth analysis of ultimate strength of GPC and OPC considering governing failure modes Design examples following international standards North America ACI 440.1R-15, Canadian CAN/CSA S806, and Australian such as AS 3600 Ends with future recommendations