Comparative study of energy dissipation capacity of steel and glass fibre-reinforced polymer frames with bonded sleeve connections

This paper presents a comparative study on the energy dissipation capacity of one glass fibre-reinforced polymer frame with bonded sleeve connection and steel frames with bolted endplate connections. Experimentally measured moment-rotation behaviour of a typical bonded sleeve connection was employed to develop the joint model for the glass fibre-reinforced polymer frame. In order to reduce the effect of the different beam size on the overall...