Acknowledgments
The study reported in this paper is part of the project ‘‘PreLami
– Performance of reinforced concrete structures strengthened in
flexural with an innovative system using prestressed NSM CFRP
laminates’’, with the reference PTDC/ECM/114945/2009. The first
author acknowledges the grant provided by this project, and second
author also wishes to acknowledge the scholarship granted
by FCT (SFRH/BD/61756/2009). The authors would also like to
acknowledge the support provided by CLEVER Reinforcement Iberica
Company, for supplying the adhesives and the laminates, and
Casais and CiviTest for the preparation of the beams.