CarbonWrap® can restore the full capacity of cracked girders and repair and waterproof corroded steel pipes. And a specially designed flexible FRP tube can be used to restore compression strength in steel tubes.
Additional advantages include:
CarbonWrap® can restore the full capacity of cracked girders and repair and waterproof corroded steel pipes. And a specially designed flexible FRP tube can be used to restore compression strength in steel tubes.
Additional advantages include:
Beams
- Increases flexural capacity
- Increases fatigue life
- Eliminates stress concentration and residual stresses due to welding
- Increases stiffness
- Costs less than alternatives
Corrugated steel culvert strengthened with CarbonWrap®
Pipes
- Requires no excavation
- Increases pipe strength to even higher than its original pressure rating
- Can be installed through manhole access
- Can be used on interior or exterior pipe surface
- Thin size for minimal reduction of pipe diameter
- Creates a very smooth surface and improves pipe flow significantly
- Costs less than alternatives
Columns
- Increases axial load carrying capacity
- Increases flexural strength
- Increases shear strength
- Eliminates corrosion problems
- Costs less than alternatives
