• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.121-135
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• 2022

Many public buildings such as schools, hospitals, etc., where partial infill walls are present in reinforced concrete (RC) structures, have undergone undesirable damage/failure attributed to captive column effect during a moderate to severe earthquake shaking. Often, the situation gets worsened when these RC frames are non-ductile in nature, thus reducing the deformable capability of the frame. Also, in many parts of the Indian subcontinent, it is mandatory to use fly-ash bricks for construction so as to reduce the burden on the disposal of fly-ash produced at thermal power plants. In some scenario, when the non-ductile RC frame, partially infilled by fly-ash bricks, suffers major structural damage, the challenge remains on how to retrofit and restore it. Thus, in this study, two full-scale one-bay, one-story non-ductile RC frame models, namely, bare frame and RC partially infilled frame with fly-ash bricks in 50% of its opening area are considered. In the previous experiments, these models were subjected to slow-cyclic displacement-controlled loading to replicate damage due to a moderate earthquake. Now, in this study these damaged frames were retrofitted and an experimental investigation was performed on the retrofitted specimens to examine the effectiveness of the proposed retrofitting scheme. A hybrid retrofitting technique combining epoxy injection grouting with an innovative and easy-to-implement steel jacketing technique was proposed. This proposed retrofitting method has ensured proper confinement of damaged concrete. The retrofitted models were subjected to the same slow cyclic displacement-controlled loading which was used to damage the frames. The experimental study concluded that the hybrid retrofitting technique was quite effective in enhancing and regaining various seismic performance parameters such as, lateral strength and lateral stiffness of partially fly-ash brick infilled RC frame. Thus, the steel jacketing retrofitting scheme along with the epoxy injection grouting can be relied on for possible repair of the structural members which are damaged due to the captive column effect during the seismic shaking.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 추계 학술발표회 제20권2호
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• pp.449-452
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• 2008

철근 콘크리트 구조는 철근과 콘크리트의 상호보완적으로 구성된 우수한 구조체이다. 그러나 구조적 균열 및 비구조적 균열과 같은 여러 원인들로 균열의 발생은 피할 수 없다. 이렇게 발생된 균열은 내구성, 안전성, 기능 및 미관 등 손상을 초래하기 때문에 보수가 필요하다. 다양하게 개발된 균열보수공법은 균열의 형태에 따라 공법의 선택이 달라진다. 그 중 균열주입공법은 구조체의 변형을 극소화하는 공법으로 범용적으로 사용되고 있다. 그러나 주입공법에 사용되는 기존 주입보수액은 성능과 환경적 측면에서 만족할만한 성능을 가지지 못하기 때문에 많은 연구가 진행되고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 친환경 재료로써 균열주입재로 사용되는 아크릴 겔의 신속한 성능 발휘를 검토하기위한 방법으로 실험을 실시하였다. 실험결과 촉매제의 첨가량이 증가할수록 아크릴 겔의 겔화시간이 줄어드는 결과가 나타났으며, 연구의 결과는 아크릴 겔을 사용하는 균열주입 보수공법의 기초적 자료로 사용될 것이다.