concrete as well as the longitudinal crack spacing were assumed to be constant but it
 is quite possible that they are variable. Their effect on the model when they are varied
 needs to be investigated and taken into account.

* Another confinement configuration of the CFRP grid that can be investigated is
 related to the CFRP grid tube beams. In this configuration a series of CFRP grid tubes
 that serve both as confinement reinforcement as well as longitudinal reinforcement
 can be used in columns. This means that the longitudinal strands of the grid will have
 to be more heavily reinforced to provide enough flexural strength and force a flexural
 failure mode that will promote concrete crushing and not rapture of the longitudinal
 CFRP reinforcement.

* In this dissertation the CFRP grid tubes or rings were manufactured by loosely
 wrapping layers of the available grid to build the desired thickness, size and shape.
 The manufacture of solid CFRP grid pieces with the desired thickness, shape and size
 can improve constructability of the concrete elements. This pre-manufactured CFRP
 grid tubes can serve both as the confinement reinforcement as well as flexural
 reinforcement much like the suggestion described in the previous suggestion with the
 difference that one large tube will be used in this case rather than a series of smaller
 tubes.