Elevated temperature behaviour of carbon fibre-reinforced polymer applied by hand lay-up (M-CFRP) under simultaneous thermal and mechanical loadings: Experimental and analytical investigation

Carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP), a polymer matrix composite material, has been increasingly used in industry, science, daily use equipment and engineering in recent decades. In civil engineering, when a construction structure reinforced with external bonded CFRP is subjected to fire, both the structure and CFRP reinforcement are concurrently affected by the elevated temperature and mechanical load. In Eurocode, the evolution of the...