“…External bonding with carbon fibre reinforced polymers (CFRP) can be a convenient means of strengthening existing members and has advantages over traditional strengthening using steel plate, most notably superior durability and lesser density. In view of this, several studies have been conducted on the behaviour of CFRP strengthened steel members under static load such as (Colombi and Poggi, 2006, Hmidan et al, 2011 and under cyclic loads (Tavakkolizadeh and Saadatmanesh, 2003, Kim and Harries, 2011, Jiao et al, 2012. Similarly, the behaviour of CFRP strengthened aluminium beams subjected to transverse blast load was examined in a number of recent studies (Bambach et al, 2010, Bambach, 2014.…”