Rehabilitation of Damaged

Concrete Structures

Peter Barlow
Beam Repair
Detail-Form &
Pour
Column Repair Detail-Form & Pour
Cement Plant Unloading
Dock
Cement Plant Unloading Dock
Cement Plant Unloading Dock
 #5 Bars

Cement Plant
Unloading
Dock
 Saw Cut & Chip

Repair Strategy
Epoxy Inject
Internal Post
Tensioning
Repair
Strategy
Internal Post
Tensioning
Flexural
Strengthening
Case Study
Internal PT
Flexural Strengthening Case
Study Internal Post
Tensioning

Note Bar
Termination
80 Year Old Building Seismic Rehabilitation

Collector Plate Recess

 Epoxy Bonded Collector Plates

Gap Between Plate &

Concrete Injected
Injection Machines

Edges of
Plate
Sealed
Gray’s Harbor Courthouse
Earthquake Repairs 1999
GFRP Shear Strengthening
Column Strengthening-Using Glass Fiber and
Grouted Steel Jackets

GFRP

Cement Grouting
Seismic Upgrade Anchorage Alaska
 The Problem

Shear Deficient
Over Turning
Minimize Addition of
Mass to Foundation
Epoxy Inject Cracks & Install GFRP

GFRP

Epoxy Injected
Cracks
Some Challenges—Transferring Load Distribution from
Foundation to Roof Elevation

High Tensioned Bolts

Radiused Plate
Washers
CFRP Cord Members to Create Overturning
Resistance
GFRP CFRP Note Curtailment of CFRP
Repair of Seismic Damage Nisqually
Earthquake 2001
Epoxy Inject Cracks and GFRP

GFRP

Epoxy Injected Cracks

18 Columns Repaired in 3 Days
Typical Shear Wall Cracks & Repair
Steel Mill’s Failing Below
Grade Walls
Large Cracks
in Wall

 Control Building for Entire

Mill
 Insufficient Reinforcing
Steel
 Improperly Placed
Reinforcing Steel
 Wall Deflecting up to 4”
 The Solution & Keep the Plant Operating

 Add a Properly Permanent Wall

Braces
Reinforced Shotcrete
Wall
 Epoxy Inject Cracks in All
Other Walls
 Apply CFRP to Difficult to
Access Walls & Walls
with Less Deflections and
Loads Epoxy Injected
Wall Cracks
Create a New Properly
Reinforced Wall Using the
Existing Wall as the Back Form
Highly Congested Walls & Lower Loads
Cable Trays for
Operating Systems

3-Layers of CFRP
Project Completed on Time & Without
Interruptions
 Bridge Structure
Seismic
Rehabilitation Using
GFRP 1995
 Fiber Saturating
Machine

3-Layers Circumferentially
3-Layers Transversely
 GFRP Installed 1995
 Revisited in 2006
 Survived the 2001
Nisqually Earthquake
CFRP Bridge Column Seismic Strengthening
Completed & Painted Column Surfaces
Muchas Gracias por su Atención !!