College - Author 1
College of Architecture and Environmental Design
Department - Author 1
Architectural Engineering Department
Degree Name - Author 1
BS in Architectural Engineering
Date
6-2019
Primary Advisor
Michael Deigert, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Architectural Engineering Department
Abstract/Summary
The purpose of this project was to provide a robust test set-up for the thesis work being conducted by graduate students, Jerry Luong & Rory de Sevilla. Their research aims to evaluate the feasibility of using fiber-reinforced polymer wraps and splay anchors to retrofit non-ductile concrete shear walls through a series of tests on reinforced concrete walls.
Four key constraints governed the design of the test set-up. First, the wall can be cyclically, laterally loaded to develop data for comparison with theoretical analysis methods. Second, the wall can be axially loaded to simulate interaction effects and prevent a sliding failure at the base of the wall. Third, the wall must be braced out-of-plane to prevent collapse without interfering with test data. Last, the test set-up can be disassembled, stored, and reassembled with relative ease for reuse on future wall tests.
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/arcesp/111