Testing of Enhanced and Repaired Pier Walls of Modern Design

摘要

The primary focus on the current research project has been to repair damaged pierwalls from a previous experimental program and to compare the strength, stiffness, ductility and cross-tie performance of the repaired pier walls with the original, undamaged pier walls. Various repair schemes were developed to see if similar procedures could be implemented in the field should a pier wall be damaged due to an earthquake. An additional focus of the project has been to compare the experimental results from two full-scale pier walls with the previously determined results from the half-scale pier walls.