en Optimal design Optimal design پژوهشي Research The use of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) U-wrap to rehabilitate concrete beams has increased in popularity over the past few years. As such, many design codes and guidelines have been developed to enable designers to use of FRP for retrofitting reinforced concrete beams. FIB is the only guideline for design which presents a formula for torsional capacity of concrete beams strengthened with FRP. The Rackwitz-Fiessler method was applied to make a reliability assessment on the torsional capacity design of concrete beams retrofitted with U-wrap FRP laminate by this guideline. In this paper, the average of reliability index obtained is 2.92, reflecting reliability of the design procedures. This value is somehow low in comparison to target reliability level of 3.5 used in the guideline calibration and so, optimum resistance factor may be needed in future guideline revisions. From the study on the relation between average reliability index and optimum resistance factor, a value of 0.723 for the optimum resistance factor is suggested. fiber reinforced polymer, reliability analysis, optimum resistance factor, torsion retrofitting, concrete beams. 227 240 http://ijoce.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-66-64&slc_lang=en&sid=1 H. Dehghani 18003194753284600822 18003194753284600822 Yes M. J. Fadaee 18003194753284600823 18003194753284600823 No