Carbon Fiber Strips Retrofitting System for Precast Reinforced Concrete Wall Panel

Abstract:

This paper presents the retrofitting procedure used on a precast reinforced concrete wall panel (PRCWP) in order to restore its initial load bearing capacity. The specimen used in this experimental test is one from the residential multistoried buildings constructed in Romania from the 1970 onwards. All of the characteristics of the element are from the specific era, only scaled down with a factor of 1:1,2. The element was subjected to in-plane reversed cyclic loading to simulate its seismic behavior and obtain its maximum load bearing capacity. After the test we retrofitted the element using Carbon Fiber Strips Externally Bonded (EBR) and anchored with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) mesh. The porpoise of the paper is to compare the maximum loading bearing capacity of the unstrengthen and strengthen elements in order to compare them and examine the efficiency of this retrofitting procedure.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 660)
• Pages: 208-212
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.660.208
• Online since: August 2015
• Authors: Mihai Fofiu, Andrei Bindean, Valeriu Stoian
• Keywords: Experimental Test, Precast, Reinforced Concrete, Retrofit, Seismic Behavior, TRM

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