In the present study, the flexural behavior of concrete beams reinforced with longitudinal rebars made of glass fiber reinforced polymer composites (GFRP), is studied using finite element method. | The effect of transverse steel rebars on the behavior of concrete beam reinforced with glass polymer rebars Engineering Solid Mechanics 2017 205-212 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Engineering Solid Mechanics homepage esm The effect of transverse steel rebars on the behavior of concrete beam reinforced with glass polymer rebars Mojtaba Hosseinia Shahpoor Mehdipourb and Peyman Beiranvandc a Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering Lorestan University Khorramabad Iran b Department of Civil Engineering Islamic Azad University Arak Iran c PhD Candidate Department of Civil Engineering Razi University Kermanshah Iran A R T I C L EI N F O ABSTRACT Article history In the present study the flexural behavior of concrete beams reinforced with longitudinal rebars Received 6 November 2016 made of glass fiber reinforced polymer composites GFRP is studied using finite element Accepted 14 July 2017 method. For this purpose a number of concrete beams with square sections are modeled in Available online ABAQUS. In all of the beams four GFRP rebars with diameter of 12 mm and 10 steel rebars 14 July 2017 Keywords with diameter of 8 mm are vertically used to prevent creating shear cracks in the beams. The Glass fiber reinforced polymer beam no. 1 is without transverse rebar beam no. 2 has a row of transverse rebar which is Finite element placed at the bottom and in the plane of vertical rebars. Beam no. 3 has a row of transverse Transverse rebars rebars that is placed at the top and in the plane of vertical rebars and the beam no. 4 has two rows of transverse rebar at the top and bottom of the beam in the plane of vertical rebars. The beams are gradually loaded under up to 6 ton and the amounts of displacement and strain at the middle of beams are compared together. The obtained results reveal that the force- displacement diagram of reinforced beams with composite rebars are almost linear until ultimate phase and in all of the beams .
