JACKETING TECHNIQUES FOR RETROFITTING

OF
RC COLUMN AND BEAM

BY
HEMANTH KUMAR B
S
SSIT
TUMKUR

INTRODUCTION
MEANING OF RETROFITTING
GUIDELINES FOR
RETROFITTING
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF
RETROFITTING
JACKETING TECHNIQUES
COLUMN JACKETING
BEAM JACKETING
CONCLUSION
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MEANING OF
RETROFITTING
Intervention to increase the original strength
and stiffness of the RC element.
Modifying existing structures with additional or
new component.

RETROFITTIN
G

WHE
N

WHY

HOW
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WHEN ?
Arise at any time from the beginning of the
construction phase until the end of the service
life.
Constructio
n phase
* Design errors
* Deficient concrete
production
* Bad execution
processes

Service
life
* An earthquake
* Fire, explosions
* situations involving
changes in the
structure
Functionality

WHY ?
Complete replacement is likely to be an increasing
financial burden
Waste of natural resources
Reinforced concrete buildings and structures
Increase their load carrying capacities or enhance
ductility under seismic loading.

HOW?

The choice of the repair and/or

strengthening method depends on the
structural behavior objectives.

GUIDELINES FOR
RETROFITTING
Identify the performance
requirements for the existing
structure
Inspect the existing structure
Based on the results of the inspection, evaluate the
performance of the structure
If the structure does not fulfill performance
requirements
proceed with design of the retrofitting
structure.
Appropriate retrofitting method
Evaluate the performance of the structure after
retrofitting and verify that it will fulfill performance
requirements.
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Goals and Objectives Of

Restrengthening
Increasing the lateral strength and stiffness of the
building
Giving unity to the structure.
Eliminating sources of weakness or those that
produce concentration of stresses.
Enhancement of redundancy in the number of
lateral load resisting elements.

JACKETING TECHNIQUES
concrete
confinement

Purpose

Shear strength

Flexural strength

Transverse
reinforceme
nt

Longitudinal
reinforcemen
t

COLUMN JACKETING
Reasons for strengthening of existing
column
Addition of floors
Change of occupational usage
Aging due to deterioration, Corrosion
Errors in design / Construction
Settlement > Allowable
Inclination > Allowable
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Column
Jacketi
ng
Reinforced concrete
Jacketing

Steel Jacketing

FRP Wrapping

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Reinforced Concrete
jacketing
Added concrete with longitudinal and transverse
reinforcement

01/06/2013

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CONTD..
Huge dead mass is added.
The sizes of the sections are increased and the free available usable
space becomes less.
The stiffness of the system is highly increased.
Longitudinal bars need to be anchored to the foundation and should
be continuous through the slab.
Requires adequate dowelling to the existing column.
The speed of implementation is slow.
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Process of RC Jacketing
Supporting the loads on columns by means of
mechanical jacks
Preparation of column which is to be
strengthened

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Installing dowels for fastening the

reinforcements around

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Installing new reinforcements

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Coating the surface with epoxy

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Pouring new concrete

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Details of RC Jacketing
Properti
es of
jackets

Match with the concrete of the existing

structure.
Compressive strength greater than that
of the existing structures
10 cm for concrete cast-in-place and 4
cm for shotcrete.

Width of
jacket

Connecto
rs

If possible, four-sided jacket should be

used.
Distributed uniformly around the
interface.
Better to use reinforced bars (rebar)
anchored with epoxy resins of grouts.
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 Percentage of steel = 0.015 to 0.04

Longitudina
l
reinforcem
ent

Transverse
reinforceme
nt

Shear
stress

At least, 12 mm bar should be used at

every corner for a four sided jacket.
Spacing should not exceed six times of
the width of the new elements
Designed and spaced as per earthquake
design practice.
Minimum bar diameter used for ties is
not less than 10 mm or 1/3 of the
diameter of the biggest longitudinal bar.
Provide adequate shear transfer
mechanism to assured monolithic
behavior.
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STEEL JACKETING
Involves a concrete-steel composite section
by placing a skeleton made of steel angles and
straps
To prevent spalling off of the shell concrete.

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Encasing the column with steel plates and filling the

gap with a non-shrink grout.
General thickness of grout = 25 mm.
Provides passive confinement to core concrete.
It is not used for columns in river, lake and seas.

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Process of Steel
Jacketing
Removing the concrete cover.
Cleaning the reinforcement steel bars using a wire brush or a sand
compressor.
Coating the steel bars with an epoxy material that would prevent
corrosion.
Installing the steel jacket with the required size and thickness, according
to the design, and making openings to pour through them the epoxy
material that would guarantee the needed bond between the concrete
column and the steel jacket.

Filling the space between the concrete column and the steel jacket with
an appropriate epoxy material

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Details of Steel
Jacketing
Steel plate
thickness
Shape
of
jackets
Gap

At least 6 mm.

Rectangular jacketing, prefabricated two Lshaped panels

Gap between steel jacket and concrete
column,
25 mm fill with cementations grout.

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FRP
WRAPPING

Comprise fibers of high tensile strength within a

polymer matrix such as vinylester or epoxy.
Involves wrapping of RC columns by high strengthlow weight fiber
FRP sheets are wrapped around the columns, with
fibers oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of
column, and are fixed to the column using epoxy resin.
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PROCESS OF FRP WRAPPING

Surface preparation
Remove dust and cement loose layer.
Repair of hairline cracks
Application of Primer

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BEAM JACKETING
Strength and stiffness of beams to resist
gravity and seismic load.
Flexural resistance must be carefully
computed to avoid the creation of a strong
beam-weak column system.
Jacketing of beam = one-sided jackets or 3
and 4 sided jackets.

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CONCLUSION
Improves the lateral load capacity of the building in a
reasonably uniform and distributed way.
RC jacketing , leads to a uniformly distributed increase in
strength and stiffness of columns, does not require specialized
workmanship, Disadvantage Increase in dead weight.
Confinement of reinforced concrete columns with steel jackets
can enhance the ductility as well as the ultimate strength of the
column, Disadvantage corrosion.
The role of FRP for strengthening of existing or new reinforced
concrete structures is growing at an extremely rapid pace
because of its advantages.
While jacketing a beam, its flexural resistance must be
carefully computed to avoid the creation of a strong beamweak column system.
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