Antiseismic strengthening of composite steel-concrete shear walls using high performance steel fiber reinforced cementitious composites

Abstract

The present paper describes the nonlinear behavior of composite steel-concrete structural walls, under lateral loads, applied in a cyclic loading procedure, simulating the effect of an earthquake, which were tested initially up to full failure and after then, strengthened using a high-performance steel fiber reinforced cementitious composite material and retested to full failure, being described aspects such: sectional configurations and geometry of tested elements, materials used and also the results obtained from the tests carried out in the laboratory.