Advancing Construction with Fibre – Reinforced Polymer in Construction Projects

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The aim of this study is to investigate the PUBLISHED 17 March 2025 VOLUME Vol.07 Issue03 2025 factors constituting the adoption of Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRPs) in construction projects, performance CITATION characteristics, monetary effectiveness, sustainability, environmental plays, and an obstacle to adoption. Of all Kishore Bandela. (2025). Advancing Construction with Fibre – Reinforced Polymer in Construction Projects. The American Journal of Engineering and the various materials used, FRPs are noteworthy as Technology, 196–214. https://doi.org/10.37547/tajet/Volume07Issue03-17 being capable of uniquely high strength-to-weight COPYRIGHT ratio, corrosion resistance, and long-term durability, © 2025 Original content from this work may be used under the terms making them an excellent replacement for a traditional of the creative commons attributes 4.0 License. steel or concrete. While the advantages of using FRPs mentioned above should drive their adoption in construction, FRPs have not been widely adopted in construction because of high initial costs, shortage of skilled labour and lack of long-term performance data. Quantitative such as survey and statistical analysis are used in this research to determine the association as well as the effect to the adoption of adopting FRPs in construction. Results indicate that the performance characteristics of FRPs, such as mechanical strength and corrosion resistance, are crucial in determining whether and how they are applied essentially because of their advantages of using in harsh environments. Furthermore, although less of such adoption is made for sustainability and environmental benefits, the adoption is even positively affected. In addition, while cost effectiveness was a well-established cost-saving associated with FRP; it did not have a strong bearing on adoption in this investigation. In the broader adoption though, there was a significant obstacle on the way, mainly the barriers to adoption, including the lack of skilled labour and regulatory constraints. The study suggests a way to fight these previously mentioned barriers, through creating some standard guidelines, with government incentive, more trained people and display of FRP case studies of the long-term The American Journal of Engineering and Technology 196 https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajet The American Journal of Engineering and Technology benefits. If the challenges are tackled and the structural advantages, the use of FRP in the construction industry construction projects developed in a more sustainable is still very small because of the high initial cost, and a less cost manner, the full benefits of FRPs can be absence of specific guidelines for widespread use and captured by the construction industry. inadequate records of performance. This is also accompanied with the fact that there does not appear to be enough information to do with the Keywords: Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRPs), complete use of FRP in diversified construction Construction Industry, Performance Characteristics, projects. While FRPs have increased their application in Cost-Effectiveness, sustainability, Barriers to Adoption. reducing certain airspace such as in seismic retrofitting and bridge improvement, there is yet absence of Introduction: research on the comprehensive application of FRPs in Background of the Study residential and commercial construction (Ahmadi et al., 2023). This study attempts to fill these gaps by FRPs or Fibre Reinforced Polymers are composites that providing quantitative information on FRPs relative to a have artificially or naturally hard fibres (such as glass cost-benefit analysis, efficiency, and implementation fibres or carbon fibres or aramid) being put within a challenges in construction environments. The study will polymer matrix (Jayan et al., 2021). As noted by Li et al. allow progress of the application of FRPs for modern (2022), the mechanical characteristics of the polymer construction more widely on this basis. are promoted by these fibres, which have better strength, durability, response to environment than Research Aim and Objectives standard materials such as steel and concrete. Research Aim: In construction, FRPs reinforce concrete structures, as The aim of this research is to study the use of Fibre wraps for columns, beams and walls, and in others such Reinforced Polymers (FRP) with respect to as bridge decks and façades. FRPs have a lightweight- performance, costs and limitation in Construction to-strength ratio, excellent corrosion resistance, and project. The picture of how all these various FRP excellent performance in severe environments. These material can play their roles in improving the properties render FRPs fit for infrastructure in coastal performance of construction or enduring this world is and industrial areas where corrosion remains a key presented in this research. factor for infrastructure structures (Saadeh and Research Objectives: Irshid