Flexural Strengthening of Damaged T-Joists with Severe Corrosion Using CFRP Sheets

[EN] This paper evaluates the residual safety of isolated T-joists with severe corrosion for the two extreme cases of boundary conditions, simply supported and fixed-ended, in order to help in making decisions about the magnitude of the necessary intervention. When the T-joist is part of a complete...

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Autores: Vercher Sanchis, José|||0000-0001-9855-4201, Gil Benso, Enrique|||0000-0002-6617-640X, Mas Tomas, Maria De Los Angeles|||0000-0002-0097-0598, Lerma Elvira, Carlos|||0000-0003-0436-3725, Torner-Feltrer, María Eugenia Milagro|||0000-0002-8296-0632
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/92432
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/92432
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:CFRP strengthening
damaged T-joist
severe corrosion
residual safety
damaged building structures
CONSTRUCCIONES ARQUITECTONICAS
MECANICA DE LOS MEDIOS CONTINUOS Y TEORIA DE ESTRUCTURAS
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Sumario:[EN] This paper evaluates the residual safety of isolated T-joists with severe corrosion for the two extreme cases of boundary conditions, simply supported and fixed-ended, in order to help in making decisions about the magnitude of the necessary intervention. When the T-joist is part of a complete slab, the boundary conditions will be in an intermediate situation between these two extreme cases, so that it is possible to assess the safety with respect to its degree of embedding. The research is conducted for the cases of healthy T-joist, T-joist with complete corrosion of the lower reinforcement, and repaired T-joists with a variable number of CFRP sheets. This work is based on the ACI 318 load test to maintain a structure in use and proposes a Load Factor (LF), which estimates the safety reserve. The simply supported T-joists specimens with severe corrosion do not meet the Load Factor or ACI 318 criteria, even with a large number of CFRP sheets. On the other hand, fixed-ended cases can be kept in use despite corrosion by applying light CFRP strengthening, and with four sheets the initial safety is restored.