STRUCTURAL STRENGTHENING

Typical Problems

• Structural alteration

• Understrength concrete

• Increase in loading

• Underprovision of rebars

• Ground settlement/Lateral movement

Typical Repair Methods

• Steel plate bonding/Steel strengthening

• Carbon fibre reinforced 
  polymer (CFRP)

• Manomer impregnation

• Enlargement of sections

• External pre-stressing

• Underpinning