

Author: Lin Yan-Jie Chen Cheng-Wei Lin Chih-Tsung Li Yeou-Fong
Publisher: NRC Research Press
ISSN: 1208-6029
Source: Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol.34, Iss.8, 2007-08, pp. : 923-933
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Abstract
In this paper, an effective repair and rehabilitation working method is proposed for moderately damaged reinforced concrete (RC) building structures after major earthquakes. Three RC frames with nil, half-height, and full-height brick walls are designed and tested at the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), Taiwan. After the columns of these nonductile RC frames are damaged, steel wire cables with nonshrinkage mortar are used to repair the damaged columns, and carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) are used to rehabilitate the damaged columns. A stress–strain relationship of the confined concrete is used in the theoretical sectional analysis. The columns are confined by steel wires and CFRP, and the "equivalent column model" is proposed in this paper and used to analyze the brick walls inside the RC frames. The analytical results can reasonably predict the lateral force–displacement relationships of these RC frames.
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