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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Investigating the Retrofitting Effect of Fiber-Reinforced Plastic and Steel Mesh Casting on Unreinforced Masonry Walls.

Faizan Halim, Afnan Ahmad, Mohammad Adil, Asad Khan, Mohamed Ghareeb, Majed Alzara, Sayed M Eldin, Fahad Alsharari, Ahmed M Yosri

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Faizan HalimDepartment of Civil Engineering, CECOS University of Science and Emerging Sciences Peshawar, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-4282-2622
Afnan AhmadDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Teknologi Petronas, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-6677-2893
Mohammad AdilDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-0166-4012
Asad KhanDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan.
Mohamed GhareebDepartment of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.
Majed AlzaraDepartment of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.
Sayed M EldinCenter of Research, Faculty of Engineering, Future University in Egypt, New Cairo 11835, Egypt.
Fahad AlsharariDepartment of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed M YosriDepartment of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-5884-1166

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Abstract

Unreinforced masonry (URM) is one of the most popular construction materials around the world, but vulnerable during earthquakes. Due to its brittle nature, the URM structures may lead to a possible collapse of the wall of a building during earthquake events causing casualties. In the current research, an attempt is made to enhance the seismic capacity of URM structures by proposing a new innovative composite material that can improve the shear strength and deformation capacity of the URM wall systems. The results revealed that the fiber-reinforced plastic having high tensile and shear stiffness can significantly increase in-plane as well as out-of-plane bending strength of the URM wall. It was recorded that the bending moment of the prism increased up to 549.5% by increasing the bending moment from 490 N*mm to 3183 N*mm per mm deflection of prism upon using glass fibers. Moreover, the ductility ratio amplified up to 5.73 times while the stiffness ratio increased up to 4.16 times with the aid of glass fibers. Since the material used in this research work is low cost, easily available, and no need for any skilled labor, which is economically good. Therefore, the URM walls retrofitted with fiber-reinforced plastic is an economical solution.

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compressive testdiagonal tensionfiber-reinforcedout of plane bendingretrofittingsteel meshunreinforced masonry (URM)

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PMCPMC9821809

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