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RETROFITTING OF EXTERIOR BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS USING CFRP

Thesis · December 2012

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26747.82721

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 ABSTRACT

Full Name : Danish Ahmed

Thesis Title : RETROFITTING OF EXTERIOR BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS USING CFRP

Major Field : Civil Engineering

Date of Degree : November, 2012

Beam column joint is an important component of reinforced concrete frames and these joints

should be designed and detailed properly, especially for cyclic loading, as for example when the

frame is subjected to earthquake loading. Recent awareness of a potential seismic event in low to

moderate seismicity regions of Saudi Arabia have led to concerns of the safety and vulnerability

of reinforced concrete buildings, in which ductile detailing has not been provided explicitly in

the design process. Most of the buildings designed in these regions are based on gravity load and

wind loads and their behavior would be non-ductile in case of a seismic event and which could

lead to loss of human life and severe economic disruption.

The objective of this study is to investigate the behavior of poor detailed beam-column joints

under vertical cyclic & static load. These beam-column joints are representative of existing

detailed building in seismically active area of Saudi Arabia.

Three types of specimens were tested with different detailing and reinforcement, out of which

two were having with small “ρ” and one with higher “ρ”, experimental result shows two type of

failure between small and high “ρ”, the specimens with lower “ρ” fails due to flexural failure and

specimens with high “ρ” fails due to failure of joint under shear which is validated by the
 mechanistic /experimental computations and also by DIANA modeling using Drucker-Prager

with tension cut-off and tension softening.

CFRP retrofitting of beam column joints were also studied by modeling the ITU specimens with

very low compressive strength concrete in DIANA and the Finite Element analysis shows very

good correlation with experimental results for both control and retrofitted specimens.

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