Degradation of bond strength and deformation between TRC-confined seawater sand concrete and BFRP bars under chloride corrosion environment

The interfacial bonding performance between seawater sand concrete and basalt fiber reinforced polymer (BFRP) bars were tested under different textile reinforced concrete (TRC) confinement layers, confinement sequences and chloride salt dry-wet cycles. The results show that TRC confinement can change the failure mode of the specimen and improve the ductility of specimens. With the increase of corrosion age, compared with the specimens with the same restrained layers in the conventional environment, the ultimate bond strength of restrained specimens before corrosion gradually decreases, and the slip value when reaching the ultimate bond strength also slightly decreases. The bond strength of the pre-restrained corroded specimens has the same development trend. Based on the bond-slip model of deformed steel bars and concrete proposed by Eligehansen for the first time in 1983—BPE model, under the control of TRC confinement and corrosion age, the relationship between the TRC confinement layer and the ultimate bond strength and slip of seawater sand concrete and BFRP steel bar is established. By fitting and predicting the ultimate bond strength, corresponding slip value, and corrosion age control of different TRC confinement layers, it is found that the confinement effect will not be significantly improved when the confinement layers exceed 4 layers. Under long-term chloride corrosion, the failure mode of the specimen may still change into splitting failure when the number of restrained layers is small.