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Guedes Soares, C., Chen, N.-Z., Santos, F.M. and Santos, C. (2007), “An Experimental and Numerical Study on GFRP Box Girder under Pure Bending”, Advancements in Marine Structures, Guedes Soares, C. and Das, P. K. (Eds.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, U.K., pp. 385-390

An experimental and numerical study on the investigation of the behavior of a glass fiber reinforced plastic box girder under pure bending is presented. The box was fabricated using the WR/polyester glass reinforced plastic and the experiment was performed by a four-point bending of a beam which was composed of two symmetric supporting parts and the box girder specimen in the middle. A nonlinear finite element code was used to predict the responses of the box. The analytical results on buckling moment and mode, pre-buckling and post-buckling responses of box girder shows a good agreement with experimental data.

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