STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR OF BEAM COLUMN JOINT RETROFITTED WITH FERROCEMENT LAMINATES

An Experimental study is executed to evaluate a retrofit technique for strengthening shear deficient beam column joint. One of the techniques of strengthening the RC structural members is through confinement with a composite enclosure. . In column was restrained as axial load. In this study totally four specimen were tested under cyclic loading in cantilever portion using hydraulic push and pull jack in which two as reference specimen and remaining two used for strengthen specimen with the Ferrocement laminate is a composite material collective with weld mesh and woven mesh embedded of 3.44 volume fraction. The hysteretic load displacement curve has been plotted and the energy dissipation capacity of the reference specimen compared with the cementitious laminate retrofitted beam-column joint from the experimental result, the laminate strengthened specimen showed more effective increasing the ultimate load carrying capacity, stiffness and energy dissipation. The analytical results showed comparable with the experimental result.