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The use of the innovative material of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced (C-FRP) ropes as external near surface mounted reinforcement for the strengthening of reinforced concrete beam-column joints is studied. The ropes are diagonally applied forming external X-type reinforcements on both sides of the joint body. The efficiency of the technique is mainly based on the assumption that the confinement of the joint body due to the applied X-shaped ropes and the contribution of the ropes as shear reinforcement are efficient enough to reduce the shear deformations observed in the joint core during the seismic excitation. Thereof the experimental measurements of the shear deformations of nine full scale beam-column joints tested in cyclic deformations are elaborated and presented herein. The specimens are sorted in two groups. Specimens of group A have been designed in the way that damage is mainly expected in the beam. On the other hand, in order to investigate the efficacy of the use of the ropes for substandard joints the group B specimens have been designed in the way that cracks and some damages are expected to develop in the joint body. Systematic and extended comparative presentations for specimens with and without ropes proved in all the examined cases that the externally mounted C-FRP ropes kept the joint body intact and substantially reduced the shear deformations especially in high drifts. Moreover, the influence of the externally mounted X-shaped C-FRP ropes on the seismic behaviour of these specimens is also examined in terms of the developing principal tensile stresses inside the joint body. From the comparisons of the principal stresses developing in specimens with and without X-form C-FRP ropes it became quite obvious that the ropes kept the joint body intact and allowed the development of higher values of principal stresses comparing with the stresses developing in specimens without ropes.

Influence of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Ropes Applied as External Diagonal Reinforcement on the Shear Deformation of RC Joints