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Development of Seismic Retrofit of Masonry Infill Walls in Reinforced Concrete Buildings Using Ferro-Cement

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K15070
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 22020:Structure engineering and earthquake engineering-related
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

Alwashali Hamood  東北大学, 工学研究科, 助教 (90839177)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Keywords耐震補強 / レンガ壁 / 耐震性能評価 / フェロセメント補強 / Retrofit of RC frame / Ferrocement / Retrofit of masonry / RC frame / ferrocement / seismic evaluation / masonry infill / Retrofit Masonry / Reinforced Concrete / Seismic Retrofit
Outline of Research at the Start

This research aims to reduce earthquake disaster risk by improving the seismic capacity of vulnerable masonry walls by strengthening with Ferro-cement (FC) . Specifically speaking: this research experimentally develop the ideal connection details and steel area ratio of FC.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Reinforced concrete (RC) buildings with Unreinforced masonry walls (URM) have suffered severe damage repeatedly in recent earthquakes such as the 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake in Italy, the 2015 Nepal Earthquake and many people died in those earthquakes. This research developed low-cost retrofitting method called Ferrocement for improving seismic capacity of masonry walls. The research first conducted experiments of 1/2 scaled specimens using the retrofit method of ferrocement. The experiments results showed that the developed retrofit method of ferrocement could improve the strength of masonry walls. The experiment also showed that there are several failure modes of the developed method with different seismic performances. Thus, several evaluation methods were proposed for each failure mode of the developed retrofit schemed and design procedures were proposed. The outcome could be used by engineers to apply existing buildings with masonry walls to improve seismic capacity.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

RC造建築物における石積み壁(URM)の脆弱性は、特に発展途上国やヨーロッパ諸国では石積みが広く使用されているため、世界共通の問題である。従来のの耐震補強工法は比較的高価であり、施工にも手間がかかるため、適用が限られている。 本研究で提案したフェロセメントを用いた工法は、低コストで建築物への適用が容易であり、世界、特に発展途上国における地震災害の軽減に大きく貢献するものである。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2021 2020 2019

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 5 results) Presentation (9 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results)

  • [Journal Article] INVESTIGATION OF THE LATERAL CAPACITY OF FERRO-CEMENT RETROFITTED INFILLED MASONRY IN RC FRAME AND SIMPLIFIED PREDICTION APPROACH2020

    • Author(s)
      SEN Debasish、ALWASHALI Hamood、ISLAM Md. Shafiul、MAEDA Masaki
    • Journal Title

      AIJ Journal of Technology and Design

      Volume: 26 Issue: 62 Pages: 159-163

    • DOI

      10.3130/aijt.26.159

    • NAID

      130007800664

    • ISSN
      1341-9463, 1881-8188
    • Year and Date
      2020-02-20
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Experimental study of retrofitting masonry infilled RC frames by ferro-cement: An overlooked failure mechanism2020

    • Author(s)
      Hamood ALWASHALI,Debasish SEN,MD. Shafiul Islam,Masaki MAEDA
    • Journal Title

      コンクリート工学年次論文集

      Volume: 42-2 Pages: 883-888

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON FERRO-CEMENT LAMINATED MASONRY INFILLED RC FRAME AND CAPACITY EVALUATION2020

    • Author(s)
      Debasish SEN,Hamood ALWASHALI,Masaki MAEDA,Matsutaro SEKI
    • Journal Title

      コンクリート工学年次論文集

      Volume: 42-2 Pages: 877-882

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] SEISMIC CAPACITY OF RC FRAME BUILDINGS WITH MASONRY INFILL DAMAGED BY PAST EARTHQUAKES2020

    • Author(s)
      Alwashali Hamood、Islam Md. Shafiul、Sen Debasish、Monical Jonathan、Maeda Masaki
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering

      Volume: 53 Issue: 1 Pages: 13-21

    • DOI

      10.5459/bnzsee.53.1.13-21

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] An experimental investigation on the cyclic behaviour of Ferro-cement laminated masonry infilled RC frame2019

    • Author(s)
      Sen, Debasish., Torihata, Yuta. Alwashali, Hamood., Maeda Masaki
    • Journal Title

      Proceeding of Japan Institute of Concrete

      Volume: 41 Pages: 859-864

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Evaluation of building characteristics and seismic capacity of existing RC Buildings in Bangladesh2021

    • Author(s)
      A.K.M. Sajadur Rahman,Md. Shafiul Islam,Zasiah Tafheem,Hamood Alwashali,Seki Matsutaro,Masaki Maeda
    • Organizer
      日本建築学会大会学術講演梗概集,pp.353-354,2021年9月.
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] “Advantages and limitations of retrofitting masonry infilled RC Frames by Ferro-cement based on experimental observations”,2021

    • Author(s)
      Hamood Alwashali, D. Sen, M. Maeda, M. Seki,
    • Organizer
      17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 17WCEE Sendai, Japan - 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND CAPACITY EVALUATION OF FERRO-CEMENT LAMINATED MASONRY INFILLED RC FRAME2021

    • Author(s)
      D. Sen, H. Alwashali, Z. Tafheem, M.S. Islam, M. Maeda, M. Seki
    • Organizer
      17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 17WCEE Sendai, Japan - September 13th to 18th 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] IN-PLANE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF MASONRY INFILLED RC FRAME WITH AND WITHOUT FERRO-CEMENT OVERLAY2021

    • Author(s)
      F. Zahura, D. Sen , R. Sabrin, A. Das, M. Uddin, Z. Tafheem, F. Khanam, H. Alwashali, M. Maeda
    • Organizer
      17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 17WCEE Sendai, Japan - September 13th to 18th 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Failure modes and capacity evaluation of Ferro-cement laminated masonry infilled RC frame Part 1: Identification of possible failure modes2020

    • Author(s)
      Md. Shafiul Islam,Debasish Sen,Zasiah Tafheem,Hamood Alwashali,Matsutaro Seki,Masaki Maeda
    • Organizer
      Proceedings of Architecture institute of Japan (AIJ) annual meeting , Japan 9/2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Failure modes and capacity evaluation of Ferro-cement laminated masonry infilled RC frame Part 2: Proposal and validation of capacity evaluation2020

    • Author(s)
      Debasish Sen,Md. Shafiul Islam,Zasiah Tafheem,Hamood Alwashali,Matsutaro Seki,Masaki Maeda
    • Organizer
      Proceedings of Architecture institute of Japan (AIJ) annual meeting , Japan 9/2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Advantages and limitations of retrofitting masonry infilled RC Frames by Ferro-cement based on experimental observations2020

    • Author(s)
      H. Alwashali, D. Sen, M. Maeda, M. Seki,
    • Organizer
      17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 17WCEE Sendai, Japan - September 13th to 18th 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Experimental investigation of Ferro-cement laminated masonry infilled in RC frame, Part (1): Experimental program2019

    • Author(s)
      Alwashali Hamood
    • Organizer
      Proceedings of Architecture institute of Japan (AIJ) annual meeting Kanazawa, Japan 9/2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Experimental investigation of Ferro-cement laminated masonry infilled in RC frame Part (2): Evaluation of failure mode and seismic capacity under lateral load2019

    • Author(s)
      Sen D., Alwashali Hamood., Tafheem Z, Islam S., Seki M., Maeda M.
    • Organizer
      Proceedings of Architecture institute of Japan (AIJ) annual meeting Kanazawa, Japan 9/2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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