Seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete beams with baslt fibre mat

Abstract

Earthquake is one of the major disaster which is responsible for massive destruction of human life and materials. To reduce the impact of earthquake, all the important structures need to be effectively strengthened for improving the performance and life of the structure. RC structures often face modifications and improvement of their performance during their service life. This paper represents the change of Reinforced concrete structural components which are found to exhibit distress because of earthquake loading. In this research work, basalt fiber mat is used to wrap around the beam specimen and determining the load carrying capacity of the specimen.