Recent seismic events have clearly confirmed the vulnerability of existing reinforced concrete (RC) structures. In particular, field observation of structures damaged by L’Aquila earthquake strongly confirmed that premature failure of partially confined (i.e. exterior) beam-column joints was one of the main causes limiting the global structural seismic capacity. Poor attention to details and a lack of adequate transverse reinforcement typically lead to premature brittle shear failure of joints. To provide support to practitioners involved in the L’Aquila reconstruction process, a proper guideline which illustrates the design of local retroit interventions on structural and non structural elements has been edited by the Italian Civil Protection Department (DPC) and the Laboratories University Network of Seismic Engineering (ReLUIS). In particular, a viable FRP strengthening strategy to increase the seismic performances of partially conined joints (design procedure and installation steps) is widely discussed and presented in the document. To validate the strengthening system recommended in this guideline, an experimental program has been carried out on as-built and FRP strengthened full scale corner RC joints (T shaped joints). After presenting the main guideline recommendations for local
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Prota, A., Di Ludovico, M., Balsamo, A., Moroni, C., Dolce, M., & Manfredi, G. (2014). FRP local retrofit of non-conforming RC beam-column joints. In Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering (Vol. 26, pp. 243–260). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00458-7_14
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