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In this study, the seismic fragility curves of two reinforced concrete (RC) columns that were lap-spliced at the bottom and retrofitted with steel wrapping jackets were generated. Their seismic performance was probabilistically assessed in comparison to that of lap-spliced or continuous reinforcement RC columns. This study used two types of steel wrapping jackets, a full jacket and a split jacket. Analytical models of the four types of columns were developed based on the experimental results of the columns using OpenSEES, which is effective in conducting nonlinear time history analyses. A suite of ten artificial ground motions, modified from recorded ground motions, was used to perform nonlinear time history analyses of the analytical models with scaling of the peak ground acceleration from 0.1 g to 1.0 g in increments of 0.1 g. The steel wrapping jackets did not increase the medians for yield (slight damage state) of the lap-spiced column and did not exceed the corresponding median of the continuous reinforcement column. However, the two steel jackets increased the medians for failure by 1.872 and 2.017 times, respectively, and exceeded the corresponding median of the continuous reinforcement column by 11.8% and 20.5%, respectively.
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Supported by: Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology under Grant No. 2013-005944
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Choi, E., Youn, H. & Cho, BS. Probabilistic seismic performance assessment of lap-spliced RC columns retrofitted by steel wrapping jackets. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 15, 223–238 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-016-0318-0
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