Strengthening of non-conforming RC shear walls using different steel configurations

Vougioukas, Emmanouil; Trezos, Konstantinos G.

doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2016.05.049

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“…Stiffness degradation in shear walls during cyclic loading may alter their efficiency and performance. These concerns have led to the development of various innovative strengthening methods for RC shear walls [98][99][100]. Ehsani et al [101] showed that strengthening shear walls with FRPs is the most cost-effective technique.…”

Section: Shear Wallsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Resilience and Self-Centering of Existing RC Coupled and Single Shear Walls Using EB-FRP: State-of-the-Art Review and Research Needs

Abbaszadeh

Chaallal

2022

J. Compos. Sci.

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The primary seismic force-resisting system (SFRS) in middle- to high-rise reinforced concrete (RC) building structures often includes coupled shear walls (CSWs) and single shear walls (SSWs). These walls are designed to transfer lateral forces to the foundation and dissipate energy through the development of plastic hinges. The latter lead to residual displacement in these structural components. On the other hand, self-centering systems enable the structures to return to their initial position after severe loading or at least reduce residual displacement. The objectives of this study were, therefore, as follows: (i) to review the state of the art on shear wall self-centering techniques and retrofitting methods based on externally bonded fiber-reinforced polymer (EB-FRP); (ii) to evaluate research needs to improve the self-centering ability of shear walls using EB-FRP.

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Section: Shear Wallsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Resilience and Self-Centering of Existing RC Coupled and Single Shear Walls Using EB-FRP: State-of-the-Art Review and Research Needs

Abbaszadeh

Chaallal

2022

J. Compos. Sci.

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“…The aforementioned literature review reveals that the majority of the conducted research is focused on the application of nonconventional jackets in strengthening methods of original RC structural members [17][18][19]21,22,24,[26][27][28][30][31][32][33][34]36,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][48][49][50]56]. Significantly fewer studies investigate such jackets for the repair of preloaded and slightly damaged RC specimens [20,23,25,29,35,37,46,47,[51][52][53][54][55].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These reasons have led researchers to switch to new jacketing techniques with alternative materials such as steel [17][18][19], advanced materials such as fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) [20][21][22][23][24][25], textile reinforced concrete or mortar [26][27][28][29] and shape memory alloys [30][31][32], cement-based materials such as ferrocement [33][34][35][36], steel fibrous concrete or mortar [37][38][39][40], high-performance fiber reinforced concrete [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48], self-compacting concrete (SCC) [49][50][51][52][53][54], and thin slightly reinforced flowable mortar [55,56]. Many of these jacketing techniques have been proved successful substitutes to common RC jacketing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Repair of Heavily Damaged RC Beams Failing in Shear Using U-Shaped Mortar Jackets

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The effectiveness of slightly reinforced thin U-shaped cementitious mortar jacketing for the repair of damaged shear-critical reinforced concrete beams is experimentally investigated. The test project includes two parts. In the first one, five concrete beams over-reinforced against flexure and under-reinforced against shear with different ratio of closed stirrups were initially subjected to monotonic loading until failure. The initially tested beams have been designed to fail in shear after wide diagonal cracking and to exhibit various strength and deformation capacities along with different levels of damages. In the second experimental part, the heavily damaged beams were jacketed with mild steel small diameter U-shaped transverse stirrups and longitudinal reinforcing bars. The retrofitted specimens using the proposed jacketing technique were tested again following the same four-point-bending load scheme. Based on the overall performance of the beams, it is deduced that the shear strength and deformation capability of the jacketed beams were substantially increased compared to the corresponding capacities of the initial beams. Further, although all beams failed in a shear abrupt manner, the retrofitted ones exhibited reduced brittleness and higher deflections at failure up to six times with respect to the initially tested specimens. The level of the initial damage influences the efficiency of the jacketing. Additional test data derived from relative shear-damaged beam specimens and retrofitted with similar thin jackets is also presented herein in order to establish the effectiveness of this repair system and to clarify the parameters affecting its structural reliability. Comparisons indicated that jacketed beams can alter the failure mode from brittle shear to ductile flexural under certain circumstances.

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“…Conventional seismic retrofit methods for RC buildings involve adding new material or structural elements that can increase the stiffness and strength of the structure and/or improve its displacement capacity. Examples include retrofit by adding external fiber‐reinforced polymers 2 or steel 3 elements to the lateral load‐resisting system. While these methods have been shown to be effective in collapse prevention, they are not intended to provide functionality or repairability after a major event.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lateral load response and collapse probability of reinforced concrete shear walls retrofitted for repairability

Okumus,

Basereh,

Aaleti

2024

Earthq Engng Struct Dyn

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This paper demonstrates the efficacy of a new reinforced concrete shear wall seismic retrofit method through a series of nonlinear static and incremental dynamic analyses. Unlike traditional retrofit methods, the method investigated aims to convert conventional walls into self‐centering walls whose behavior is governed by rocking and flexure. The retrofit involves creating a cold joint at the foundation–wall interface, cutting some reinforcing bars to allow rocking, adding external post‐tensioning to enable self‐centering, and externally confining wall toes to prevent concrete crushing. The retrofit was applied to two building archetypes, each with two different shear wall designs. The four walls were retrofitted by varying retrofit parameters (portion of the vertical reinforcement bars cut, and external post‐tensioning amount). Nonlinear static and nonlinear response history analyses were performed using experimentally validated, computationally efficient models that simulate walls with fiber‐based beam–column elements. Incremental dynamic analysis was used to create collapse fragility functions for pre‐ and post‐retrofit walls. The results show that the retrofit is effective when some vertical reinforcement bars are left uncut across the foundation–wall interface. The retrofit is more effective for walls with vertical reinforcement distributed across cross‐section as compared to walls with reinforcement concentrated near boundary elements and for walls with structurally efficient amounts of reinforcement as compared to walls with higher amounts of reinforcement. This is attributed to the larger amount of reinforcement bars cut in walls with concentrated reinforcement layouts or heavy reinforcement amounts, leading to a larger loss of strength, recovery of which requires larger amounts of post‐tensioning.

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Strengthening of non-conforming RC shear walls using different steel configurations

Cited by 23 publications

References 13 publications

Enhancing Resilience and Self-Centering of Existing RC Coupled and Single Shear Walls Using EB-FRP: State-of-the-Art Review and Research Needs

Enhancing Resilience and Self-Centering of Existing RC Coupled and Single Shear Walls Using EB-FRP: State-of-the-Art Review and Research Needs

Repair of Heavily Damaged RC Beams Failing in Shear Using U-Shaped Mortar Jackets

Lateral load response and collapse probability of reinforced concrete shear walls retrofitted for repairability

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