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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Long-Term Durability of FRP Cables under Maritime Conditions
Authors : Itaru Nishizaki, Iwao Sasaki
Published in: Advances in FRP Composites in Civil Engineering
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Six types of FRP cables were subjected to an exposure test lasting more than fifteen years under maritime conditions, and the retrieved cables were evaluated mainly by SEM and FT-IR microscopy. Loss of surface resin was observed for all the tested FRP cables; however, deterioration between the fiber and matrix resin was not found by SEM. Observation by FT-IR microscopy detected surface deterioration of AFRP cables, and the feasibility of this method for evaluating the deterioration of some FRP cables was indicated.