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Pultruded glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite rebar was immersed in alkaline concrete environment for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 14 and 24 months at 60 °C to evaluate its durability in concrete structure. Moisture absorption of the rebar was found to be only 0.76%. It was also found that both the glass transition temperature (Tg) and the short beam shear strength were retained by about 91.5%; and the above properties were remained almost unchanged during the ageing period from 1 month to 24 months. Design tensile strength and tensile elastic modulus of the rebar were retained by 100% after 24 months exposure in concrete environment. Degradation of GFRP rebar was not evident in the FT-IR results as supported by scanning electron micrographs and energy dispersive X-ray analysis. Moisture absorption was found to be a critical factor that controlled thermal and mechanical properties of GFRP rebar. |
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