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Since the advent of the use of fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP) to strengthen reinforced concrete (RC) and its employment in civil engineering in the early nineteen nineties, much of the research has concerned the enhancement of bending capacity. Failure modes are well understood and can be predicted with some accuracy. The models adopted by the most highly reputed international standards for the specific...