high strength modulus carbon fiber fabric

Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) have been widely used to strengthen ma- sonry structures under lateral loads due to their advantages of high strength, lightweight, and corrosion resistance characteristics . However, the use of CFRPs to improve the  compression behaviour of bonded brickwork has been scarcely investigated in previous studies. Thamboo and Dhanasekar  tested bonded brickwork under cyclic compression  and showed that various types of bonded brick masonry were vulnerable to cyclic actions. Later on, they employed carbon CFRP laminates to strengthen bonded brickwork wallettes  under concentric and eccentric compression loads and reported no benefit due to early de-bonding of the fabric from the masonry . The other efficient strengthening technique  developed in recent years is a passive, externally bonded prestressed Cfrp Plates anchor to the structure using epoxy adhesive .