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Strengthen Your Concrete or Masonry with Composites

Guest blogger Brad Erickson, Engineering ManagerThis week’s post comes from Brad Erickson, who is the Engineering Manager for the Composite Strengthening Systems™ product line at our home office. Brad...

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Using FRP Composites to Strengthen Concrete or Masonry Structures – Five Case...

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite systems can be used to strengthen walls, slabs and other concrete or masonry members in buildings and other structures. The case studies below show ways in...

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Q&A: Best Practices for FRP Strengthening Design

On December 1, 2016, Simpson Strong-Tie hosted a webinar titled “The Design Fundamentals of FRP Strengthening” in which Justin Streim, P.E. – one of our Field Engineers – and I discussed the best...

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A New Way to See Whether FRP Is Right for Your Project

This week’s post was written by Griff Shapack, FRP Design Engineer at Simpson Strong-Tie. Specifying our Composite Strengthening Systems™ (CSS) is unlike choosing any other product we offer. In light...

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New CSS Product Launch — FRCM Strengthening Products

The new FRCM Composite Strengthening Systems repair and reinforcement solution from Simpson Strong-Tie combines high-performance sprayable mortar with a carbon-fiber grid that creates a thin structural...

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Case Study: Shoring Up Aging Concrete Grain Silos with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer

The Simpson Strong-Tie® Composite Strengthening Systems was used to restore and strengthen 6 distressed cast-in-place concrete grain silos with a combination of carbon and glass FRP, meeting a tight...

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Reasons to Specify SET-3G Adhesive for Anchorage in Concrete Construction

We’ve been receiving a lot of requests lately from engineers wanting to know exactly what the difference is between Simpson Strong-Tie’s relatively new adhesive, SET-3G, and its predecessor, SET-XP®....

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Not Just A Connector Company

I write a lot about testing on this blog, from my first post about testing to the series I did on how we test different products (hangers, holdowns, fasteners). This week I’d like to highlight some...

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