Title
Experimental assessment of confined masonry walls retrofitted with SRG under lateral cyclic loads
Date Issued
15 November 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Around the world, many informal masonry buildings have collapsed due to the failure of their bearing walls under lateral seismic loads. This is related to the many involved factors, such the quality of the materials, the quality of workmanship, the lack of technical intervention, and the high seismicity of the zone, among others. However, the fact is that these constructions need to be retrofitted in order to upgrade their ultimate strength and allow them to properly absorb inelastic deformations. Currently, fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) has been widely studied as a retrofitting technique. However, it has some technical and economic disadvantages that are remedied by fiber reinforced mortar (FRM). In this paper, a variant of FRM known as steel reinforced grout (SRG) is studied as a seismic retrofitting technique for cracked confined masonry walls (CMW). For this purpose, three full-scale cracked walls were repaired, retrofitted with SRG strips, and tested under in-plane cyclic loads at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). The experimental results show the benefits of SRG in improving the lateral displacement ductility, energy dissipation, and stiffness degradation of CMWs.
Volume
199
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería civil
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85071762174
Source
Engineering Structures
ISSN of the container
01410296
Sponsor(s)
The authors are grateful for the financial support provided by CONCYTEC within the framework of the N° 232-2015-FONDECYT Agreement, as well as to the industrial company KERAKOLL for providing the necessary materials for the retrofitting.
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