Commentary: Design and guidance for structures and buildings of fibre reinforced polymer composites Available to Purchase

In the UK we have continued from the 1960s to introduce, develop and engineer fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composite shapes and systems into new civil engineer works. FRP composites comprise a polymer based resin matrix that is reinforced by fibres of, say, glass or carbon. There are a number of composite manufacturing processes to produce structural elements, of which pultrusion and moulding (which can be with sandwich construction) are commonly used (see Chapter 4 in Mottram and Henderson (2018)).

It has been recognised for over 20 years (Chalmers, 1997; Gutiérrez et al., 2007) that the...