Study Progress of FRP Rebars in Concrete Structures

Fiber reinforced plastics (i. e. FRP) rebars are one kind of high-performance composite materi- als used in concrete structures of civil engineering. Compared with ordinary steel rebars, FRP rebars have the characteristics of high tensile strength, an- tisepsis, light weight, low elastics modulus and low shear strength, et al. At present time, FRP re- bars have been studied and applied in Europe, America and Japan Since 2000, in the Fund of NS- FC, we systematically carried out experimental and theoretical studies on FRP rebars The progress of our research is briefly introduced in this paper.