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Saeed Baharipour
Master student of structure, Azad University of Malayer, Iran.
e-mail: saeedbahari6425@Yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
A large part of the existing buildings in Iran is from type of unreinforced masonry that have
been designed and implemented in the absence of any seismic regulation which are known as
the most vulnerable building against earthquake. Public awareness of the consequences of the
earthquake is relatively new in Iran and in addition, nature of earthquake and other limitations
of engineering about these buildings show another perspective on this issue, the aim of this
paper is to retrofitting the foundation of unreinforced masonry buildings that here in after briefly
called masonry buildings and describes the methods previously used about this type of buildings
completely and various methods of retrofitting the foundation of masonry buildings against
seismic stimulations are discussed and illustrated therein.
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INTRODUCTION
Discussion of building retrofitting has been widely discussed in Iran especially after the Bam
earthquake. That what buildings need for retrofitting is debatable from both scientific and practical
perspectives. Froma scientific perspective, all buildings that are not implemented under currently
principles and criteria for building design regulations need to retrofit that are divided into two
categories, first those which have been designed and implemented before there Levant regulatory
authority and second, those which have been built in recent years, but unfortunately due to failure
in them technical principles have not been done. From a practical perspective, it is not possible to
retrofit all foregoing buildings and therefore, circle of discussion should be more limited and just
that category of unreinforced masonry structures should be addressed which have special conditions
such as medical centers, schools, antiquities, symbols and that fortunately since government is
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trustee of such buildings, whether in terms of finance and in terms of execution and support, the
possibility of practical implementation of retrofitting becomes more.
FOUNDATION RETROFITTING
Foundation of a building is taken into account as the laststructural member in the way of
transferring the gravitationaland accessories forces of building to ground, foundations weaknesses
in theforce transmission results inbuildingfailure andcollapse.
Masonry buildings are principally lack of resistant foundation and are usually on the
infrastructure of masonry materials that are lack ofpowerand resistance againstlateral loads,
therefore foundation strengthening discussion in Masonry buildings is more likethe implementation
of new foundation in these buildings.
So it should be noted that proper drainage should be performed in regions with danger of
saturation of soil below foundation.
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these new foundations should be such that first no problem occurs in flooring and second, they
transfer all vertical loads of walls to old foundation and then to ground. It should be considered that
new foundations are built on a proper bed.
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If available masonry foundation is pedestal, detail can be also used according to figure 2.
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soil more than penetrating into the soil, and in result of this replacement soil is concentrated and its
bearing capacity is added (figure 8).
TO USE PILES
If the bearing capacity of soil is low to the extent that extending the foundation is not
responsive too, in addition to building the deep footings there is another solution and that is to use
the micro pile. In this method which is a combination of building the new foundation and creating
the deep foundations or piles method, the construction can be started according to figure 9. One of
the foregoing methods can be also used to connect the new structure to old structure.
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OTHER METHODS
Mentioned methods are the most common methods of strengthening the foundation, but in
addition to above items there are other solutions too which are referred to them briefly.
One of the methods of strengthening the foundation is to adopt some strategies for reducing the
forces applied to foundation that this work is possible by embedding the vertical components of
new lateral porter such as types of shear walls. Also building use changes can be effective on the
amount of end load applied to foundation. The other strategy is to flood the foundation existing in
concrete that increases its solidarity. If the existing foundation has a week section with much empty
space, before performing each of the offered strategies it is better to retrofit the existing foundation
by injecting the grout and then implement the desired method. This work results the empty spaces
to be filled and continuity to be increased and consequently existing foundations resistance to be
increased.
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1. TonekaboniPor S.M .2007. Buildings retrofitting principles. Azadeh publications, second
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publications, first edition.
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FEMA 356, 2000. Prestandard and Commentary for the Seismic Rehabilitation,
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8. FEMA 576, 2006. Techniques for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings,
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9. FEMA 273, 1997. Nehrp Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings, Edition,
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10. FEMA 274, 1997. Nehrp Commentary on the Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation
of Buildings, Edition, October.
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