[HTML][HTML] Seismic upgrading of existing reinforced concrete buildings: A state-of-the-art review

PD Gkournelos, TC Triantafillou, DA Bournas - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Collapses or serious damages of existing buildings during strong earthquakes have resulted
in significant economic losses, severe injuries and loss of human lives. Given the late …

Strengthening and repair of reinforced concrete columns by jacketing: State-of-the-art review

S Raza, MKI Khan, SJ Menegon, HH Tsang, JL Wilson - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Sustainability necessitates the protection of infrastructure from any kind of deterioration over
the life cycle of the asset. Deterioration in the capacity of reinforced concrete (RC) …

Experimental study on influence of proposed FRP-strengthening techniques on RC circular short columns considering different types of damage index

M Haji, H Naderpour, A Kheyroddin - Composite Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
The most important phenomenon that threatens the stability and health of structures in
different parts of the world is the occurrence of an earthquake with varying intensity and …

[HTML][HTML] FRP for seismic strengthening of shear controlled RC columns: Experience from earthquakes and experimental analysis

M Del Zoppo, M Di Ludovico, A Balsamo… - Composites Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
The high vulnerability of existing Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures, even to moderate
seismic events, has been confirmed from recent post-earthquake surveys. Short and wall …

Retrofit of RC square short columns

K Galal, A Arafa, A Ghobarah - Engineering Structures, 2005 - Elsevier
There exist many reinforced concrete short columns that are vulnerable to brittle shear
failure as repeatedly demonstrated during recent severe seismic events. Due to the large …

Seismic behavior of repaired and externally FRP-jacketed short columns built with extremely low-strength concrete

I Bedirhanoglu, A Ilki, TC Triantafillou - Journal of Composites for …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Short columns with deficiencies of low-strength concrete and large spacing of transverse
reinforcement are quite common in construction practice in many develo** countries in …

Performance-based assessment of RC building with short columns due to the different design principles

E Işık, H Ulutaş, E Harirchian, F Avcil, C Aksoylu… - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Many factors affect the earthquake vulnerability of reinforced concrete (RC) structures,
constituting a large part of the existing building stock. Short column in RC structures is one of …

Performance of steel bar lap splices at the base of seismic resistant reinforced concrete columns retrofitted with FRPs—3D finite element analysis

E Anagnostou, T Rousakis - Fibers, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper examines analytically the design criteria for the composite retrofit of reinforced
concrete (RC) columns with a short lap splice length of steel rebars inside the critical region …

Mesoscale Modeling and Simulation of Size-Dependent Shear Response of Rectangular CFRP-Confined RC Columns

L Fan, L **, O Zhao, P Li, J Liang… - Journal of Composites for …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Reinforced concrete (RC) columns are prone to shear failure under seismic loads,
particularly in the case of short columns. However, this brittle failure may have more adverse …

Machine learning-based estimation of reinforced concrete columns stiffness modifiers for improved accuracy in linear response history analysis

A Habib, MT Junaid, S Dirar, S Barakat… - Journal of Earthquake …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines machine learning to estimate the stiffness modifiers of rectangular
reinforced concrete columns. It involves training and validating these models on …