Repair of Clay Brick Walls for out of Plane Loads by Means of FRCM

Abstract:

Aim of this work is the evaluation of FRCM capacity in repairing pre-damaged clay brick walls under out of plane loads. Full scale experimental tests have been performed damaging clay brick walls subjected to out of plane loads; then, tests are performed on damaged walls repaired with innovative composite grids with inorganic matrix (FRCM). The boundary constraints of the walls (two adjacent edges constrained and the other two free) allowed to simulate a non-uniform out of plane behaviour of the wall subjected to a pointwise normal load applied at the free corner. The aim of this study was to assess the potentiality of FRCM to recover stiffness after significant damage and to improve the lateral (out-of-plane) capacity of the repaired wall. Experimental evidences demonstrated that the externally bonded strengthening was not strongly affected by debonding and it was able to prevent a flexural failure; the collapse of the wall occurred at almost double load with respect to the unreinforced configuration, despite previous significant damage, and that the failure was governed by shear sliding. Future developments include experimental tests of strengthened walls not previously damaged, to investigate on the effect of pre-damage on out of plane strengthening capacity of FRCM.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 747)
• Pages: 358-365
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.747.358
• Online since: July 2017
• Authors: Claudio D'Ambra, Gian Piero Lignola*, Francesco Fabbrocino, Andrea Prota, Elio Sacco
• Keywords: Clay Brick, Masonry, Mortar Degradation FRCM, Out of Plane, Repair, Wall

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