In order to improve the strengthened efficiency of prestressed carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) for fatigue-cracked steel structures, the prestressed CFRP-reinforced tensile steel plate with a mixed-mode edge crack is taken as the research object to study the crack propagation behavior and fatigue life of the pre-split tensile steel plate reinforced by different prestressing configurations of CFRP, through the fatigue test and the finite element simulation of crack propagation. The results indicate that, compared to the CFRP reinforcement amount and the initial crack size, the prestressing configuration of CFRP has the most significant influence on the edge crack propagation behavior of steel plates with the mixed-mode crack. The crack driving force reduction rate for prestressed CFRP arranged along the nominal principal tensile stress direction is about one times higher compared to the layout perpendicular to the initial crack direction. The improvement in fatigue life is about three times higher, and with the increase in prestressing level, the advantage of reinforcement along the principal tensile stress direction becomes more pronounced. Under the conditions of CFRP reinforcement ratio of 0.18, and pre-compression of 30 MPa on steel plate, prestressing CFRP arranged along the nominal principal tensile stress direction can increase fatigue life by over hundreds times, achieving an reinforcement efficiency more than five times higher than that of non-prestressed CFRP.
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