Fiber-Reinforced-Polymer Grid Eyed in Double-T Collapses | 2017-04-05 | ENR

Two separate failures of three canti­levered flanges of three precast, prestressed-concrete double-T parking-deck sections—reinforced with a non-code-compliant, high-strength carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer grid—are putting the spotlight on the structural safety of corrosion-resistant FRP grids for transverse reinforcement of double-Ts. The 2015 and 2016 collapses occurred in two garages at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel, in Cherokee, N.C. […]