Universitatea Politehnica Timişoara

Facultatea de Construcţii
Departamentul de Căi de Comunicație Terestre, Fundații și Cadastru

REMEDIEREA ȘI CONSOLIDAREA
FUNDAȚIILOR

- CURS 9a -

Studiu de caz – Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru preluarea

încărcărilor laterale și verticale
(Rehabilitation of Existing Foundation Building to Resist Lateral and Vertical
Loads - El-Samny M. Kassem and Abd El-Samee W. Nashaat, Egipt)

Prof.dr.ing Adrian CIUTINA

 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale

 The building consists of a basement, ground floor, and 11 typical

floors.

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 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale

 Soil investigation:
 The soil condition consists of a filling material up to 2.00 meter
depth from the ground surface
 about 3.00 meter very hard brown clay (qu=1.50 kg/cm2).
 1.00 meter of medium clay soil (qu =0.80 kg/cm2)
 soft brown clay up to 10.00 depth.
 fine to medium sand up to 20.00 meter depth (end of borings).

 The water table appears to exist at 3.5 meter depth.

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 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale
 The building has been tilted to one side more
than 10%.
 The inclination is due to the fact that the
foundation design was incorrect.
 The thickness of raft was 0.95 meters while the
required one should be 1.30 meter.

Building model

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 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale
 There is a great eccentricity on the raft due to deficitary raft design:
stresses on soil reaches 5 kg/cm2 at some areas while the allowable is
1.5 kg/cm2

Stress analysis of old foundation

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 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale
 Strengthening of the existing foundation was done by increasing the
foundation thickness as well as area:
 I- Increasing the foundation area by 1.2 m from three sides according to design.
Increase foundation area is done to ensure that the vertical stress on soil doesn't
exceed the allowable stress 1.5 kg /cm2 with any eccentricity on the raft.

Raft foundation
strengthening by
increasing
thickness

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 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale
 Strengthening of the existing foundation was done by increasing the
foundation thickness as well as area:
 II- Implant shear connectors (dowels) in old foundation concrete sides. Calculation
has been done to determinate the number and the length of shear connectors.

Raft foundation
strengthening by
increasing area
(plan)

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 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale
 Strengthening of the existing foundation was done by increasing the
foundation thickness as well as area:
 III- Shear connectors are placed to ensure almost complete connection between
the old foundation and added reinforced concrete foundation.

Details of anchors

Location of anchors

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 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale
 Strengthening of the existing foundation was done by increasing the
foundation thickness as well as area:
 IV - Shear connectors are placed as follows (tehnology):
 A. holes are carried out in the old foundation with diameter 18 mm. The
minimum horizontal and vertical distances between holes are 0.25m and0.30
m respectively. The holes have been cleaned by compression of air
 B. Grouting is carried out by epoxy. Steel reinforcement bars with diameter of
16 mm by the required length leaving at least 1.0 m are placed.
 V - Concrete cover has been removed from the three sides and upper surface of
the old foundation reinforced concrete.
 VI- Increasing thickness of foundation by 0.35 m is done. Implant additional
reinforcement mesh Ø16mm @ 15 cm top and bottom.

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 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale
 Adding a new shear wall to resist lateral forces:
 Shear walls provide
the most significant
part of the
earthquake
resistance of the
building. The new
structural elements
in an existing
building change the
dynamic behaviour
of the whole space
structure
considerably during
an earthquake.

Proposed added shear

walls
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 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale
 Adding a new shear wall to resist lateral forces:
 The added shear walls were monolithic to the existing columns.
 The web thickness of the shear wall was 30 cm and the vertical reinforcement
were Ø16 @ 15 cm and the horizontal reinforcement were Ø12 @ 15 as shown in
Figures (15 & 16). The dowels with diameter of 16 mm by the required length
leaving at least 0.60 m were 20 cm deep in columns..

Details connection between shear walls and columns

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 Studiu de caz: Reabilitarea fundațiilor existente pentru
preluarea încărcărilor laterale și verticale
 Adding a new shear wall to resist lateral forces:

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