جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "trc" در نشریات گروه "عمران"

One of the main damages of the nonstructural masonry walls during an earthquake is its instability and collapse on the combination of deformation at the in-plain direction caused by lateral inter-story drift of structures and out-of-plane inertial forces applied to the wall because of earthquake acceleration. In most of the researches, only one of these actions was investigated, or their interactions were not directly investigated.
In this research, a combination of in-plane and out-of-plane loadings was carried out, and the effect of reinforcing on the nonstructural walls by using fiber mesh reinforced mortar and bed joint rebar has been investigated.
For this purpose, three wall specimens with scale of 1 to 1 were made of Leca blocks. Walls were subjected to a combination of in-plane cyclic loading and out-of-plane loading. The results showed that nonstructural walls, without reinforcement, failed under out-of-plain force in low in-plain drift, and the test process was stopped. On the other hand, strengthening the nonstructural wall with fiber mesh reinforced concrete caused an increase of 15% and 54% in the drift ratio related to the reduction of the wall resistance and the maximum in-plane force compared to the nonstructural wall, which was strengthened with bed joint reinforcement.

Repairing and strengthening of structures are unavoidable. The main reasons for repairing and strengthening concrete structures are improper design or construction, weakness of the structural elements, changing the usage of the building and damages that happen in structural elements. There are various ways for strengthening the vulnerable structures. In recent years, usage of high strength concrete reinforced with textile meshes (Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC)) for strengthening the concrete structures has become a proper alternative for retrofitting the buildings. Using reinforced concrete with TRC is one of the new methods for strengthening the concrete structures. This method has become popular in recent years due to its light weight, high strength, no changes in the dimensions of reinforced concrete elements, and ease of use. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of this method in strengthening concrete columns with a low reinforcement ratio that need reinforcement. In this investigation, after verifying two models simulated by finite element software (ABAQUS) with experimental results, eight models were studied numerically. The models consisted of columns and supporting beams and they were categorized into four groups by different parameters which are effective in strengthening the concrete columns. In this paper, various parameters such as geometry of cross-section, mortar strength, and number of textile layers were investigated. The columns and their connections to supporting beams were strengthened with TRC. Models strengthening were carried out using vertical layers plus horizontal layers of textile meshes in cement mortar. Lateral force capacity, crack, and stress pattern on concrete and mortar surfaces and yielding of rebars in reinforced concrete columns were compared and evaluated. The cyclic behaviors of all TRC strengthened models were improved compared to non-strengthened ones.