“…The fibers in the FRP strip were oriented in the hoop direction and a 150 mm overlapping zone was adopted for all the wrapped specimens. Unlike the bond between the FRP and the concrete in a beam or beam–column member in which the bond strength is significant (e.g., [38,39,40]), the failure of FRP will not occur in the overlapping zone (i.e., debonding failure generally will not appear) and the FRP serves as a confining material in a column member. That is to say, the bond strength between the layers of FRP, rather than that between the concrete and FRP, is critical to the confinement effectiveness.…”