This study aims at exploring ways of making the use of bamboo reinforced concrete beams simple, efficient and cost-effective for rural construction with Ghana as a case study. It is a comparative study of bamboo reinforced concrete beams with shear links made of different materials. The web materials considered were bamboo, rattan cane and steel. Sixteen (16) beams were tested to failure under ...

Corrosion of steel reinforcement is one of the main durability problems facing reinforced concrete infrastructures worldwide. This paper will summarize the results of a multi-phase experimental program undertaken at the University of Waterloo to investigate the viability of using externally bonded fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) laminates to rehabilitate corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete bea...

This study evaluates the fire resistance performance (1–2h) of a reinforced concrete (RC) structure-void slab using a lightweight hollow sphere, which can reduce the unnecessary dynamic of removing the central concrete. For this experiment, we set up the depth of the concrete cover, live load, and span length as the factors. The result comes out with 50 mm cover depth of the RC structure hollow...

Citation: Tesfamariam S and Goda K (2015) Seismic performance evaluation framework considering maximum and residual inter-story drift ratios: application to non-code conforming reinforced concrete buildings in Victoria, BC, Canada. Front. Built Environ. 1:18. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2015.00018 seismic performance evaluation framework considering maximum and residual inter-story drift ratios: applica...

progressive collapse is a chain reaction of failures propagating throughout a portion of the structure disproportionate to the original local failure occurring when a sudden loss of a critical load‐bearing element initiates a structural element failure, eventually resulting in partial or full collapse of the structure. both general services administration (gsa) and united states department of d...

Citation: Ravahatra NR, Duprat F, Schoefs F, de Larrard T and Bastidas-Arteaga E (2017) Assessing the Capability of Analytical Carbonation Models to Propagate Uncertainties and Spatial Variability of Reinforced Concrete Structures. Front. Built Environ. 3:1. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2017.00001 Assessing the Capability of Analytical Carbonation Models to Propagate Uncertainties and Spatial Variability...

Citation: Tesfamariam S and Goda K (2017) Energy-Based Seismic Risk Evaluation of Tall Reinforced Concrete Building in Vancouver, BC, Canada, under Mw9 Megathrust Subduction Earthquakes and Aftershocks. Front. Built Environ. 3:29. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2017.00029 Energy-Based Seismic Risk Evaluation of Tall Reinforced Concrete Building in Vancouver, BC, Canada, under Mw9 Megathrust Subduction Eart...

Deterioration of reinforced concrete members and their repair methods have been reported in various concrete published reports. Electrodeposition method is one of these repair methods for repairing deteriorated concrete members using an electrochemical mechanism. The purposes of the electrodeposition method are to fill cracks in concrete and to coat the concrete surface by electrodeposits of ch...