Abstract:
Over the past few decades, due to the developments of chemical adhesives, usage of anchorages
is spread out in strengthening applications. Anchorages have a vital role to ensure those
applications accurate. In case of misapplications, connection between existing structural member
and added one may not transfer required forces which means non-efficient retrofitting.
Therefore, a number of recommendations are done regarding free-edge distance and embedment
depth of axially loaded anchors embedded to both low and normal strength concrete.
Furthermore, experimental results are compared with ACI-318 Appendix D recommendations.
