Design of Fibre-Polymer Composite Structures

João R. Correia is Full Professor of Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, the IABSE Prize of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering and the Distinguished Young Researcher Award of the International Institute for FRP in Construction.Thomas Keller is Full Professor of Structural Engineering and the head of the Composite Construction Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.Jan Knippers is Director of the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) and a director of the Cluster of Excellence "Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture"at the University of Stuttgart, and founder of Helbig Advanced Engineering Stuttgart.J. Toby Mottram is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Engineering at The University of Warwick, UK.Carlo Paulotto is a manager in the Offshore Wind department of Ferrovial Construction, Madrid.José Sena-Cruz is an Associate Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal, where he is also Assistant Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), and Director of the European Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Advanced Structural Analysis and Design using Composite Materials.Luigi Ascione is contract professor of Structural Mechanics at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Salerno, Italy and former chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Discipline Stream Leader for Civil Engineering and Vice-Rector for Buildings.

• "Type A" Examples. A1. ULS verifications of a balanced symmetrical laminate subjected to in-plane and out-plane loading. A2. ULS verifications of a balanced symmetrical laminate subjected to in-plane and out-plane loading - preliminary design. A3. ULS verifications of a simply supported fibre-polymer composite profile with double symmetric H-cross-section subjected to axial compression. A4. ULS and SLS verifications of a simply supported fibre-polymer composite profile with double symmetric I-cross-section subjected to a uniformly distributed transverse load. A5. ULS and SLS verifications of a simply supported composite sandwich beam with complex balsa core. A6. ULS and SLS verifications of a simply supported fibre-polymer composite homogeneous-core sandwich panel subjected to a uniformly distributed transverse load. A7. ULS and SLS verifications of a simply supported web-core sandwich panel subjected to a uniformly distributed transverse load. A8. ULS verification of a double-lap adhesive joint with pultruded adherends: Stress-based approach. A9. ULS verification of a double-lap adhesive joint with pultruded adherends: Fracture mechanics’ approach. A10. ULS verifications of simply supported fibre-polymer composite profiles with double symmetric ‘H’ and ‘I’ cross-section subjected to axial compression. A11. ULS & SLS verifications of a simply supported fibre-polymer composite profile with double symmetric rectangular hollow (RHS) cross-section subjected to a uniformly distributed transverse load. "Type B" Examples. B1. Ultimate Limit State (ULS) verifications for bolted connections of pultruded profiles of a truss bridge with a span length of 13,50 m. B2. ULS verifications of a glass fibre-polymer composite footbridge. B3. Design of a vacuum infused composite web-core sandwich road bridge. B4. ULS verification of a pultruded fibre-polymer composite spatial frame structure.