| With the purpose to provide a seismic retrofit method with good workability for reinforced concrete (RC) highway bridge columns under severe construction work conditions, a retrofit method with combination of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheet and steel jacketing has been proposed in the previous researches of this research project. In this research, bonding behavior between CFRP sheet and steel plate was investigated experimentally in order to establish a rational design method for the CFRP-steel bonded connection. This paper provide an introduction of the proposed seismic retrofit method companying with descriptions of the tests on CFRP-steel bonded connection and test on RC bridge column specimen for examining the retrofit effectiveness of the proposed retrofit method. |
