Open AccessExperimental Study Characterizing Retrofitting Method for Shear Walls at Nuclear Plant
Author(s) -
Shin-ichi Takezaki,
Hideo Ono,
Yoko Yasutomi,
Seiya Katayama
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of disaster research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.332
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1883-8030
pISSN - 1881-2473
DOI - 10.20965/jdr.2016.p0354
Subject(s) - retrofitting , structural engineering , shear wall , joint (building) , materials science , shear (geology) , direct shear test , shear strength (soil) , deformation (meteorology) , nuclear power plant , composite material , geotechnical engineering , engineering , geology , physics , nuclear physics , soil science , soil water
One method of improving the earthquake resistance of shear walls protecting existing nuclear power plants is to retrofit the wall by installing additional rebars with concrete to produce a monolithic structure. We conducted a static loading test to confirm the structural performance of the walls when in-plane and out-of-plane shear forces act on the concrete joint faces produced by this retrofitting method. The test specimens consisted of those in which the concrete joint face was treated differently and a monolithically cast specimen for comparative purposes. The test results showed that the different treatments of the concrete joint face had very little effect on the strength or deformation performance, which were confirmed to be the same as those of the monolithically cast specimen.