Post Seismic Capacity of Damaged and Repaired Reinforced Concrete Plastic Hinges Extracted from a Real Building (2017)

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This paper presents preliminary results of an experimental campaign on three beam-column joint subassemblies extracted from a 22-storey reinforced concrete frame building constructed in late 1980s at the Christchurch’s Central Business District (CBD) area, damaged and demolished after the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes sequence (CES). The building was designed following capacity design principles. Column sway (i.e., soft storey) mechanisms were avoided, and the beams were provided with plastic hinge relocation details at both beam-ends, aiming at developing plastic hinges away from the column faces. The specimens were tested under quasi-static cyclic displacement controlled lateral loading. One of the specimens, showing no visible residual cracks was cyclically tested in its as-is condition. The other two specimens which showed residual cracks varying between hairline and 1.0mm in width, were subjected to cyclic loading to simulate cracking patterns consistent with what can be considered moderate damage. The cracked specimens were then repaired with an epoxy injection technique and subsequently retested until reaching failure. The epoxy injection techniques demonstrated to be quite efficient in partly, although not fully, restoring the energy dissipation capacities of the damaged specimens at all beam rotation levels. The stiffness was partly restored within the elastic range and almost fully restored after the onset of nonlinear behaviour.
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Cuevas A, Pampanin S (2017). Post Seismic Capacity of Damaged and Repaired Reinforced Concrete Plastic Hinges Extracted from a Real Building. Wellington: New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. 27/04/2017-29/04/2017.This citation is automatically generated and may be unreliable. Use as a guide only.
ANZSRC Fields of Research
40 - Engineering::4005 - Civil engineering::400506 - Earthquake engineering40 - Engineering::4005 - Civil engineering::400504 - Construction engineering
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