Episode 57 - FRP, Bonding With Simpson
The Structural Engineering Podcast
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FRP - What Is It?
F r p is a combination of an epoxy and a fibres. The idea is that if you lose your effort, pean of fire or vandalism, or anything like that, your structure would not have a collapse. So for gravity load op grades a a c, i has a check, which is called the existing capacity check. I mian it will still be able to withstand a minimum load combination. Or when you talk about sismic loads, that's not really the case,. because the chance of you having an earthquake and fire at the same time are not that high - in sismic conditions we are less concerned about fire.
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