Investigation of the effectiveness of CFRP strengthening of concrete made with recycled waste PET fine plastic aggregate

S Qaidi, YSS Al-Kamaki, R Al-Mahaidi, AS Mohammed… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
In recent decades, several studies have considered the use of plastic waste as a partial
substitute for aggregate in green concrete. Such concrete has been limited to non-structural …

Effects of eccentric loading on performance of concrete columns reinforced with glass fiber-reinforced polymer bars

N Shakouri Mahmoudabadi, A Bahrami, S Saghir… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforcements are superior to traditional steel bars in
concrete structures, particularly in vertical elements like columns, and offer significant …

Artificial intelligence-based prediction of strengths of slag-ash-based geopolymer concrete using deep neural networks

S Oyebisi, T Alomayri - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The construction and building industry, one of the greatest emitters of greenhouse gases, is
under tremendous pressure because of the growing concern about global climate change …

Efficiency of GFRP bars and hoops in recycled aggregate concrete columns: Experimental and numerical study

A Raza, U Rafique - Composite Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
To develop a sustainable environment and to alleviate the problems of the large annual
production of construction and demolition waste, the recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) has …

Investigation of HFRC columns reinforced with GFRP bars and spirals under concentric and eccentric loadings

A Raza, A Ahmad - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a lack of experiments and finite element analysis (FEA) on the structural behavior of
glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforced concrete columns with hybrid fibers. The …

Prediction of properties of FRP-confined concrete cylinders based on artificial neural networks

A Ahmad, V Plevris, QZ Khan - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Recently, the use of fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP)-confinement has increased due to its
various favorable effects on concrete structures, such as an increase in strength and …

Hyper-tuning gene expression programming to develop interpretable prediction models for the strength of corncob ash-modified geopolymer concrete

J Zhou, Q Tian, S Nazar, J Huang - Materials Today Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Geopolymer concrete has been offered as an alternative to traditional concrete due to the
environmental consequences of cement manufacture. It is also unable to make adjustments …

Structural performance of FRP-RC compression members wrapped with FRP composites

A Raza, B Ali, MA Nawaz, I Ahmed - Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The literature is deficient for the theoretical predictions of the axial loading capacity of Fiber
Reinforced Polymers (FRP) reinforced concrete-filled FRP tube (CFFT) columns. The …

Data-driven analysis on ultimate axial strain of FRP-confined concrete cylinders based on explicit and implicit algorithms

W Chen, J Xu, M Dong, Y Yu, M Elchalakani… - Composite …, 2021 - Elsevier
The existing models for predicting the ultimate axial strain of FRP-confined concrete
cylinders are mainly derived from the regression analyses on small datasets. Such models …

Experimental and theoretical study of GFRP hoops and spirals in hybrid fiber reinforced concrete short columns

A Raza, QZ Khan - Materials and Structures, 2020 - Springer
Literature is deficient in exploring the structural behavior of concrete columns reinforced with
glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars and hybrid fibers. In the present study, the hybrid …