Abstract:
This paper discusses practical and theoretical issues concerning a rehabilitation system for timber
beams, consisting of the replacement of the damaged or decayed parts by new pieces of timber,
connected to the remaining original material through a cast-in-situ reinforced epoxy plate. Mild
steel ribbed bars, stainless steel threaded rods and pultruded GFRP bars were used as reinforcement
and the performance for each alternative was found through bending tests of a number of spliced
beams. A proposal for an analytical model for the design of such system was developed, which
shows good agreement with the experimental results.
