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Due to the increase of environment requirements, Fiber glass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) chimney liners are frequently used in coal-fired units. Wind and earthquake loads play an important role in the design of FRP chimney liners. Most of the engineering staff are still accustomed to accept single model, although, conjunctive model can reflect the effect of concrete cylinder on FRP liners and obtain more accurate internal forces of the liners under earthquake and wind loads. In this paper, a novel modified single model method is put forward to obtain accurate results.

Adhesive bonding as a promising join technique for composites is not widely used for the absence of absolutely understanding of loading behavior. In this paper both electric-strain gages and FBG sensors were employed to get the internal and surface strain of adhesive joint. In the experiment, nonlinear behavior is observed. Then the test data were compared with FEM results. It is showed that they meet each other well, FEM could get the stress distribution in adhesive bond composite joint, and both biggest peel stress and shear stress are appear at the end of adhesive.