The project will be performed in three work packages:
Work package 1: The existing beam tests under sustained load will be continued for 2 years. Two beams are strengthened at the top side
with unstressed CFRP strips and on top a mastic asphalt layer was applied. A third beam was strengthened with prestressed CFRP strips
and only a protection paint was applied. Therefore, the beams are exposed to temperature cycles (day-night and season) for three years.
Additionally, there is a chance that an accidental temperature scenario (very hot summer day) occurs. In autumn 2018, the remaining
strength of the test beams will be determined.
Work package 2: The temperature in the epoxy adhesive under a mastic asphalt layer is significant higher as the air temperature because of
the sun radiation. The application of a 230°C hot mastic asphalt has a delayed and therefore reduced temperature effect to the epoxy
adhesive. With the help of the measurement data from WP1 and a FE model, an engineering model to estimate temperatures in epoxy
adhesive due to direct sun radiation or mastic asphalt application will be developed.
Work package 3: The usual failure mode of flexural strengthening is debonding of the externally bonded reinforcement from the concrete
surface. With the help of the experiments which were performed in the project AGB2012/001, the existing design verifications of the Code
SIA 166 (2004) for debonding (tensile force resistance, tensile force change resistance) shall be verified for short-term behavior and
extended for long-term behavior (sustained load with temperature cycle).