EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON RETROFIT TECHNOLOGIES FOR RC FRAMES WITH INFILLED BRICK MASONRY WALLS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON RETROFIT TECHNOLOGIES FOR RC FRAMES WITH INFILLED BRICK MASONRY WALLS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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发展中国家填充砖墙RC框架改造技术试验研究
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2018
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Andrei Papurcu
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M. Seki;V. Popa;Eugen Lozincă;A. Dutu;Andrei Papurcu
The developing countries in the earthquake prone regions in the world are still suffering a lot of casualties as well as building damage. These damages might be caused by inadequate structural design by engineers and/or poor quality control of construction works. In order to contribute to disaster mitigation for existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in developing countries, economic and easy to apply retrofit methods should be developed based on the local materials and the construction technologies. For this reason, a project was conducted in Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, Romania (UTCB) aiming to find a solution that can be easily applied in the developing countries and with as low cost as possible. Two retrofit solutions were considered: one with timber framed masonry panels input inside the RC frame, connected just with mortar to the RC frame and the other using two layers of wire mesh applied on a brick masonry infill. Five specimens were tested: one bare RC frame, one RC frame with timber cushion and brick masonry infill, one RC frame with brick masonry infill, one RC frame with timber framed masonry infill and one RC frame with brick masonry infill strengthened by two layers of wire mesh and mortar (ferrocement), respectively. The test specimens are a half-scaled in order to fit in the reaction frame. The concrete compressive strength is about 14 MPa, and masonry prism strength of is about 11 MPa. These values are quite low aiming to simulate the low material quality in developing countries. The cyclic loading test was performed and the ultimate failure mode, maximum strength, maximum horizontal drift and other behavior characteristics were obtained and are discussed in this paper.