Web-flange behavior of pultruded GFRP I-beams: A lattice model for the interpretation of experimental results

Glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) I-beams have seen growing interest in the last decades, so that they are now being used in many civil applications. For this reason various experimental campaigns have been performed to study the structural response of such elements. In particular, experimental tests performed by Feo et al. [1] highlighted the need to study the local problem of the web-flange junction when pultruded I-beams are subjected to...