Enhancing the Performance of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Wrapping Technique
Research Paper
Mohd. Atherulla Khan1 and M. Venu2
1*Research Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Telengana, India 
2Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Telengana, India 
*Corresponding Author’s Email: atherkhan14786@gmail.com 
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285627

ABSTRACT
Old structures beyond their design age become critical in terms of structural integrity, and with limited serviceability they pose serious health and safety risks for the occupants. Rehabilitation and retrofitting of these structures is must to extend their serviceability and mitigation of risk to life due to structural failure. An attempt has been made to examine the performance of strengthened reinforced concrete (RC) beams in terms of its flexural strength. The effect of adding different layers of stainless-steel wire meshes (SSWM) to RC beams has also been investigated. For this, RC beams strengthened with various SSWM wrapping configurations have been subjected to a two-point flexural stress. In this study, a series of flexural strength tests were conducted on various combinations of wrappings (360°-Wrap and U-Wrap) and concrete (M20 and M60). These combinations have been compared in terms of different gain in flexural strength.

Keywords: Stainless steel wire mesh, Fiber reinforced concrete, Epoxy, Flexural strength