PRESENTATION ON

SEISMIC RETROFITTING OF REINFORCED

CONCRETE BUILDINGS

PRESENTED BY
CH.MOHAN SAI
188W1D8704
 TOPICS:

 Classification of retrofitting techniques

 Retrofitting strategies for RC buildings
 Structural level (Global) retrofit
methods
 Member level (Local) retrofit methods
CLASSIFICATION OF RETROFITTING TECHNIQUES:
GLOBAL RETROFITTING TECHNIQUES:

ADDING NEW SHEAR WALL:

 Frequently used for retrofitting of non
ductile reinforced concrete frame
buildings.
 The added elements can be either cast
in place or precast concrete elements.
 New elements preferably be placed at

the exterior of the building.

 ADDING INFILL WALLS:

 This is the brick masonry infill wall.

 Installed tight to surrounding concrete
elements.
 The lateral stiffness of a storey increases
with infill wall.
 Due to ‘strut action’ of the infill walls, the
flexure and shear forces and ductility
demand on the ground storey columns are
substantially reduced.
ADDING BRACINGS:

 An effective solution when large

openings are required.
 Increase in strength, ductility and
stiffness.
 Opening for natural light.
 Adds much less weight to the
existing structure.
ADDING WINGWALLS:
 To increase lateral strength, ductility
and stiffness of the structure.
 The wing walls are placed at the
exterior side of the existing frame.
 They serve as buttresses to support
walls.
 They can also be purely decorative.
 WALL THICKENING:
 The existing walls of a building are added
certain thickness by adding bricks, concrete
and steel aligned at certain places at
reinforcement such that the weight of wall
increases.
 MASS REDUCTION:

 In this process removing one or more

storey of building is done.
 Decrease the load at foundation.
 Increases the life and strength of the
building.
REDUCTION BY REMOVAL OF STOREY
 BASE ISOLATION:

 Isolation of superstructure from the

foundation is known as base isolation.
 This is concerned to reduce the
horizontal seismic forces.
 Most powerful tool for passive
structural vibration control technique.
BASE ISOLATION:
 Does not involve major intrusion upon
existing superstructure.
 This method is expensive to perform.
 This cannot be applied partially to
structures unlike other retrofitting.
 Challenging to implement in an
efficient manner.
MASS DAMPERS:
 There are two types of mass
dampers. They are
1. Supplementary dampers

2. Tuned mass dampers

1.SUPPLEMENTARY DAMPERS:
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o It is an essential energy dissipation system

that is incorporated into the design of
structure to absorb vibration energy to
reduce motion.
o It would decrease the energy dissipation
demand on structure components like
beams, columns and slabs by increasing
survivability of structure.
o Decreased construction and maintenance
cost.
2.TUNED MASS DAMPERS:
 It is also know as a harmonic absorber,
designed to reduce the amplitude of
mechanical vibrations.
 Their application can prevent
discomfort, damage or outright
structural failure.
 These are frequently used in the
power transmission, automobiles and
buildings.
LOCAL RETROFITTING TECNIQUES:
JACKETING OF BEAMS:
o Beam jacketing method reduces the stress at

crack tip to value less than the stress at that

position before cracking.
o Re-strengthening work by enlargement of

the section of the beam increasing the

capacity at the location other than the crack
location.
o It increases the size of the beam, stiffness of

the beam also increases that which can take

additional loadings.
o As steel can take much more tension than

concrete, steel size can be reduced.

JACKETING OF COLUMNS:
 It consists of added concrete with longitudinal and
transverse reinforcement around the existing
column.
 This improves the axial and shear strength of
column while the flexural strength of column and
strength of beam column joint remains same.
 It improves the lateral load capacity of the building
in a uniform and distributed way and avoiding the
concentration of stiffness as in shear walls.
 Major strengthening of foundations may be avoided.
 JACKETING OF BEAM COLUMN JOINTS:

 A joint may be defined as the part of the

column that is located through the depth of
the beams and which intersect that column.
 In this dissipation of energy has been mainly
concentrated at the beams end.
 It is important to point out the need to have
a very strong column as compared to the
beam to avoid driving of the column.
STRENGTHENING OF INDIVIDUAL FOOTINGS:

 Strengthening of columns foundations is required

in the case of applying additional loads. Widening
and strengthening of existing foundations may be
carried out by constructing a concrete jacket to
the existing footings.
 The new jacket should be properly anchored to
the existing footing and column neck in order to
guarantee proper transfer of loads. This can be
accomplished by drilling holes into existing
concrete of footing and epoxy grouting the
longitudinal reinforcement of jacket.
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