Publications

Articles in Professional/Technical Journals

Rizkalla, S., M. Dawood, and D. Schnerch. "Development of a carbon fiber reinforced polymer system for strengthening steel structures," Composites: Part A. Accepted for publication.

Schnerch, D. and S. Rizkalla. "Flexural strengthening of steel bridges with high modulus CFRP Strips," ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, v. 13, n. 2, March 2008, pp. 192-201.

Schnerch, D., M. Dawood, S. Rizkalla and E. Sumner. "Proposed design guidelines for strengthening of steel bridges with FRP materials," Construction and Building Materials, v. 21, n. 5, May 2007, pp. 1001-1010.

Schnerch, D., M. Dawood, S. Rizkalla, E. Sumner, and K. Stanford. "Bond Behavior of CFRP Strengthened Steel Structures," Advances in Structural Engineering, v. 9, n. 6, December 2006, pp. 805-817.

Fam, A., Schnerch, D. and Rizkalla, S., “Rectangular filament-wound glass fiber reinforced polymer tubes filled with concrete under flexural and axial loading: Experimental investigation,” Journal of Composites for Construction, ASCE, v. 9, n. 1, February 2005, pp. 25-33.

Schnerch, D., K. Stanford, E.A. Sumner, and S. Rizkalla. “Strengthening steel structures and bridges with high modulus carbon fiber reinforced polymers: Resin selection and scaled monopole behavior,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1892, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2004, pp. 237-245.

Papers Published in Conference Proceedings

Schnerch, D. "Flexural Strengthening of Masonry Facades with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Bars," Symposium on Building Envelope Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, November 8-9, 2007.

Schnerch, D., M. Dawood, E. Sumner, and S. Rizkalla. "Design Guidelines for Strengthening of Steel-Concrete Composite Beams with High Modulus CFRP Materials," 7th International Conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 23-25, 2006.

Dawood, M., D. Schnerch, E. Sumner, and S. Rizkalla. "Strengthening Steel Bridges with New High Modulus CFRP Materials", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety, and Management (IABMAS '06), Portugal, July 16-19, 2006.

Schnerch, D., Dawood, M., Sumner, E., and Rizkalla, S., "Design Guidelines for Strengthening of Steel Bridges with High Modulus CFRP Materials", 85th Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 22-26, 2006.

Schnerch, D., K. Stanford, E. Sumner and S. Rizkalla. "Bond Behavior of CFRP Strengthened Steel Bridges and Structures," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bond Behavior of FRP in Structures (BBFS 2005) Chen and Teng, Eds., Hong Kong, China, December 7-9, 2005.

Schnerch, David, Mina Dawood, Emmett A. Sumner, and Sami Rizkalla. Strengthening steel-concrete composite bridges with high modulus carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates,” Composites in Construction 2005 - Third International Conference, Hamelin et al., eds., Lyon, France, July 11-13, 2005.

Schnerch, David, Mina Dawood, Emmett A. Sumner, and Sami Rizkalla. “Behavior of steel-concrete composite beams strengthened with unstressed and prestressed high-modulus CFRP strips,” The Fourth Middle East Symposium on Structural Composites for Infrastructure Applications, Alexandria, Egypt, May 20-23, 2005.

Schnerch, D. and S. Rizkalla. “Strengthening of scaled steel-concrete composite girders and steel monopole towers with CFRP,” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering - CICE 2004, Adelaide, Australia, December 8-10, 2004, p. 43-54.

Schnerch, D., B. Lanier, S. Rizkalla, and A. Nakagoshi. “Flexural strengthening of steel bridges and towers using high modulus CFRP materials,” The Second International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management – IABMAS’04, Kyoto, Japan, October 19-22, 2004.

Schnerch, David and Sami Rizkalla. “Behavior of scaled steel-concrete composite girders and steel monopole towers strengthened with CFRP,” Proceedings of The First International Conference on Innovative Materials and Technologies for Construction and Restoration – IMTCR’04, Vol. 1, Lecce, Italy, June 6-9, 2004.

Shaat, Amr, David Schnerch, Amir Fam, and Sami Rizkalla. “Retrofit of steel structures using fiber reinforced polymers (FRP): State-of-the-art,” Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, January 2004, Washington, D.C.

Schnerch, David, Kirk Stanford, Emmett A. Sumner, and Sami Rizkalla. “Strengthening steel structures and bridges with high modulus carbon fiber reinforced polymers: resin selection and scaled monopole behavior,” Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, January 2004, Washington, D.C.

Schnerch, David, Kirk Stanford, Bryan Lanier and Sami Rizkalla. “Use of high modulus carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) for strengthening steel structures,” The Second International Workshop on Structural Composite for Infrastructure Applications, Dec 17-18, 2003, Cairo, Egypt, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Fam, Amir, Siddhwartha Mandal, David Schnerch and Sami Rizkalla. “Rectangular concrete-filled GFRP tubes as flexural and axial members,” The Second International Workshop on Structural Composites for Infrastructure Applications, Dec 17-18, 2003, Cairo, Egypt, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Fam, A. Z., Schnerch, D. A. and Rizkalla, S. H., “Rectangular FRP tubes filled with concrete for beam and column applications”, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Reinforcement for Reinforced Concrete Structures (FRPRCS-6), Singapore, July 8-10, 2003.

Technical Reports

Fam, A., Schnerch, D. and Rizkalla, S., Moisture Effect on Durability of Concrete-Filled GFRP Tubular Piles, NCSU-CFL, Report No. 02-04, Aug 2002.

Schnerch, D., Fam, A. and Rizkalla, S., FRP/Concrete Hybrid Rectangular Tubes, NCSU-CFL, Report No. 02-03, Aug 2002.