Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Timber beams with external strengthening based on CFRP
and GFRP composites
M. Karmazínová
Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
ABSTRACT: The paper is focused on the possibilities of the usage of fibre-reinforced polymers or polymer
composites respectively, to strength timber structural members of load-bearing civil engineering structures, in
the case of reconstructions, for example. Strengthening timber beams using external reinforcement based on
carbon-fibre-reinforced or glass-fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP or GFRP) composites appears the advanced
way. The paper deals with the