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ABSTRACT This paper presents the experimental results of a reinforced concrete beams (RC) strengthened with internal steel fibers (SF) and external glass fiber reinforced polymer laminates (GFRP). The research work studied the load carrying capacity, deformation, crack width and ductility of the reinforced concrete beams strengthened with different steel fiber ratios and steel fiber reinforced concrete beams strengthened with three different glass fiber reinforced polymer laminates of two different thickness. The experimental results clearly shows that incorporating steel fibers in to the reinforced concrete beams reduced the crack width and distribute the crack evenly and also increases the bonding between tension face of the beam with glass fiber reinforced polymer laminates. The results also shows that glass fiber reinforced polymer laminates strengthened steel fiber reinforced concrete beams increases the flexural strength and ductility as compared with unstrengthened counterpart. In addition to this experimental work, theoretical calculations were done to find the ultimate load carrying capacity of the beam tested, and also compared with the experimental results.
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Fishmeal extract agar is a new antibiotic sensitivity test medium. It is simpler and cheaper than Mueller-Hinton agar and comparable in its efficacy to the latter. It can also be used for isolation of moderately fastidious and non-fastidious bacteria from clinical specimens. Fishmeal extract broth can be used as a base for biochemical tests used for the identification of bacterial isolates.