Abstract:The ocean harbors abundant natural resources. Utilizing seawater, sea sand, and coral to produce sea sand coral concrete for engineering construction serves as an effective measure to address the scarcity of traditional building materials. Glass fiber reinforced polymer reinforcement exhibits excellent corrosion resistance, effectively resolving the durability issues of SSCC structure. Given the deficiencies in existing research on the flexural performance and bearing capacity calculation of GFRP bar-reinforced SSCC beams, this study conducted static loading tests to investigate the effects of longitudinal reinforcement diameter, stirrup spacing, and concrete strength grade on failure mode, mid-span deflection, longitudinal reinforcement strain, and ultimate bearing capacity. Based on the plane section assumption, a calculation formula for the flexural bearing capacity of GFRP bar-reinforced SSCC beams was established, and the parameters of the equivalent rectangular stress diagram in the compression zone were derived and determined. The results indicate that the primary failure mode of GFRP bar-reinforced SSCC beams is bending failure. As the longitudinal reinforcement diameter increases, the stirrup spacing decreases, and the concrete strength grade rises, the ultimate bearing capacity of GFRP bar-reinforced SSCC beams gradually improves, with maximum increases of 77.97%, 33.05%, and 13.98%, respectively. The calculated flexural bearing capacity values of GFRP bar-reinforced SSCC beams show good agreement with the experimental values, verifying the rationality of the parameters of the equivalent rectangular stress diagram. The proposed flexural bearing capacity calculation formula demonstrates high accuracy and applicability.