Title
Basic study on reinforced concrete shear walls without boundary columns retrofitted by carbon fiber sheets
Date Issued
01 December 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Toyohashi University of Technology
Publisher(s)
Fuji Technology Press
Abstract
Reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in Peru use low ductility walls, with rectangular cross-sections and reinforced with wire mesh and vertical reinforcement bars at boundary ends, as structural elements. These structural elements have no columns, have small amounts of reinforcing bars and are expected to fail in a brittle manner. In this study, a performance verification test is conducted on the use of carbon fiber sheets (CFS) as a retrofitting method for shear walls without boundary columns. The focus is on retrofitting walls that fail in flexural mode. In other words, although an increase in strength cannot be expected, CFS retrofitting can delay the concrete crushing of the shear wall base that occurs during flexural failure; and the aim is to verify this improvement in deformation performance due to CFS retrofitting. From the test, by retrofitting the RC shear wall without boundary columns with CFS, it was found that postmaximum strength deterioration was more gradual, and deformation performance was improved. And Ultimate limit deformation of specimen which was partially retrofitted at the boundary ends of the wall was larger than that of specimen which was retrofitted over the entire wall span.
Start page
1008
End page
1014
Volume
9
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Ingeniería estructural y municipal
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84914179059
Source
Journal of Disaster Research
ISSN of the container
18812473
DOI of the container
10.20965/jdr.2014.p1008
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