Assessment of FRP pultruded elements under static and dynamic loads

Modelling hollow pultruded FRP profiles under axial compression: Local buckling and progressive failure

“…The captured failure mode ranged from buckling bulge for a ratio of 1 to local buckling for a ratio of 5. Moreover, the linear perturbation procedure in Abaqus was used to simulate the local buckling of hollow box and channel-section Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) short columns and beams through an eigenvalue buckling problem [36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. However, in all these studies, the full load-displacement path and progressive failure were not simulated due to limitations in the analysis method utilised.…”

Pseudo-ductile failure of adhesively joined GFRP beam-column connections: An experimental and numerical investigation

“…Typical structures constructed from GFRP include footbridges and industrial buildings while more recent applications involve low-rise residential buildings and temporary structures built for emergency situations. Research has demonstrated possible solutions for mitigating some of the structural problems many emanating from the high deformability of GFRP [4,5] and its negligible plastic capacity [6,7]. Nevertheless, GFRP profiles are not customarily used for building frames due to lack of confidence in the structural performance of frame beam-to column connection.…”