substantial research has been carried out on the external bonding of Fiber Reinforced Polymer(FRP) strips to deficient Reinforced Concrete(RC) beams
for the well-known superior properties of FRP. Numerous shear predictions have been established by using the effective strain of FRP or introducing an ultimate stress discount coefficient. Latest design concept is the use of stress distribution factor. In the paper
an equivalent effective strain of FRP is advanced which contains the concepts of maximum strain
stress distribution factor and the effect of critical shear crack angle. To develop a simple
accurate proposal of such equivalent effective strain
major effect factors are first studied and explicit by the statistical independent hypothesis test on a database of 128 RC beams wrapped by FRP or failure with FRP rupture in literatures. Finally
a simple and rational shear design proposal is presented which has a higher accuracy than the existing models using the above database.
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