Spindle with better energy quickly transit to the worse with the inverted S shaped and the phenomena of pinching is serious, which is the same characteristic of hysteresis curves. In this case the steel bar sliding, shearing deformation and concrete cracking should be special attention. The phenomena of pinching and no slip with reinforcement achieve better improvement than that without improvement.
Energy dissipation and seismic performance are improved significantly after reinforcement. Compare with J0, the load of J4 increases rapidly. The capacity achieves further improvement when the steel bar slides and comes to the hardening stage. Skeleton curve slope among J1 to J3 becoming larger indicates that the BFRP sheets involve to increased stiffness in the period of loading.