This research investigated the flexural behavior of high-strength concrete beams reinforced with continuous basalt fiber-reinforced polymer (BFRP) bars and discrete steel fibers. Five concrete beams with the dimensions of 150 × 300 × 2100 mm3 were constructed and tested to failure under four-point bending cyclic loading. The specimens consisted of four BFRP-reinforced concrete beams with various reinforcement ratios (ρf), namely, 0.56%, 0.77%, 1.15%, and 1.65%, and one conventional steel-reinforced concrete beam for comparison purposes. The cracking behavior, failure modes, load-deflection behavior, residual deformation, and stiffness degradation of the beams were studied. Additionally, a deformation-based approach was used to analyze the deformability of the beams. The results show that an increase in the ρf effectively restrained the crack widths, deflections, and residual deformation while also enhancing the flexural bearing capacity of the beams. In comparison to the first displacement cycle, the bearing capacity dropped by 10% on average in the third cycle. The stiffness exhibited a fast to slow degradation trend until failure. The residual stiffnesses were higher in beams with a higher ρf. The over-reinforced beams had superior deformability than the under-reinforced beams, according to the deformability factors.

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The ductile behaviour of composite beams reinforced with glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) pultruded rectangular tubes was investigated in this paper. The composite beams were reinforced with GFRP tubes and different steel products, aiming to improve their ductility by using steel products. The main parameters were the types of the steel reinforcement, namely rebars and steel angles. The flexural behaviour of four beam specimens was tested by using a four-point bending test. The experimental results show that the yield load of the specimens was determined by the steel products and the ultimate load was controlled by the GFRP tubes. Two ductility methods (displacement ductility and energy ductility) were used to evaluate the change of the ductility. Both the methods confirmed that the ductility of the composite beam was improved in varying degrees by using rebars and steel angles. Moreover, the analysis shows that improving the yield load or decreasing the ultimate load of the composite beams contributed to the improvement of the ductility.