This paper presents a repairing technique of the AFRP sheets that effectively strengthens RC beams, controls both the failure modes and the stress distribution around the beam chords and enhances the serviceability (deflection produced under working loads be sufficiently small and cracking be controlled) of pre-cracked RC beams with openings.
For the ultimate limit state, the reasonable reference period is the projected design working life of the structure; for the serviceability limit state a suitable reference period is one year.
In order to satisfy the serviceability limit states, a concrete structure must be serviceable and perform its intended function throughout its working life.
The advantages of utilising the technology of UHPFC in repairing works includes (i) decrease the working time needed for the rehabilitation works; and (ii) increase the serviceability and durability to an extent where the repaired structures can meet the expected design life of the structures, with minor preventative measure.
The results of the load test at working stress condition revealed that the GR-SRW's response to the test load was well within the serviceability limits, and that the currently available design guideline tends to over-estimate the surcharge load-induced reinforcement forces.
The reactor pool working platform (RPWP) has been newly designed for an open-tank-in-pool type research reactor, and its seismic response, structural integrity, serviceability, and seismic margin have been evaluated during and after seismic events in this paper.
We show that this criterion is not a mandatory requirement for serviceability of CICC and that CICC may work reliably at higher current densities.
This mannered coldness denotes the work's serviceability and its evident message: the set is redundant, because it reinforces the traffic circle's meaning, and also that of the emergent new class at whose service the artist is.
In these "beautiful", placid works everything leads to serviceability, with no trace of earth, no hint of unavailabilityj.
The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ 2010) has stated that building performance is a function of serviceability, safety and reparability.
