THIS PAPER PRESENTS A NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA) THAT HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT TO STUDY THE BEHAVIOR OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER (FRP) STRENGTHENED REINFORCED CONCRETE (RC) BEAMS CONTAINING LARGE RECTANGULAR WEB OPENINGS IN THE FLEXURE ZONE. STUDIED PARAMETERS WERE TYPE OF LOADING AND OPENING SIZE. ELEVEN RC BEAMS CATEGORIZED INTO TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS WERE ADOPTABLE IN FE MODEL SOFTWARE ... Read more