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In-plane Behavior of Unreinforced Masonry Walls Retrofitted with Natural Fiber Reinforced Cement Mortar
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Etri, Suhelmidawati Numada, Muneyoshi Meguro, K. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | The 2009 September 30 earthquake in Indonesia has caused many collapsed structures which killed more than 1,000 people. Most of the structures were unconfined brick masonry or confined brick masonry residential houses. Regarding this condition, there is a need to strengthen a masonry house by retrofitting with specific material. Some retrofitting materials, such as fiber reinforced polymer, steel fiber-reinforced polymer and glass fiber-reinforced polymer, etc., have been investigated, but these synthetic materials are expensive and are not available in many parts of the world. Therefore, we use a natural fiber called abaca fiber, which is locally available and has high tensile strength mixed in mortar as reinforcement. The final objective of the study is to investigate the seismic behavior of masonry houses retrofitted by the proposed composite system and assess the feasibility of the system. The axial tension test and the in-plane diagonal compression test using brick masonry wallets are conducted in this research. Based on the experimental results, abaca fiber reinforced cement composites increase strength and deformation capacity of masonry wallets. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://3icudr.org/images/Extended_Abstracts/Breakout_4/Track_1/4-In-planeBehaviorofUnreinforcedMasonryWallsRetrofittedwithNaturalFiberReinforcedCementMortar-Suhelmidawati.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://3icudr.org/images/Presentations/Breakout_4/Track_1/4_Etri.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
