Reinforced wall with synthetic fibre reinforcement examination of behaviour

The walls do not have a bearing feature in reinforced concrete structures. It only has several functions as reinforcements to the carrier elements. Intermediate partition element; We can count the feature of being a filling material between the column, beam and floor among these tasks. In masonry structures, it functions completely as a carrier element. The issue that it might be beneficial to strengthen the walls by undertaking these tasks is examined in this study. Synthetic fiber reinforcement, which is generally used as ground reinforcement material, will be used for this reinforcement process. When looking at the production patterns of this synthetic fiber reinforcement, it is understood that the most suitable material for the wall sample reinforcement process is the geogrid. Therefore, in this study, we used geogrid material as reinforcement material. For this, we have produced 9 (nine) wall samples in total with a plaster of 79.5 x 79 cm in thickness (10.5 cm (8.5 cm in those without plaster)). 3 (three) of these samples are produced without any reinforcement and plastering process for reference. Another 3 (three) examples were plastered only with plaster with a mixture of water, cement and aggregate mixing ratio, without being reinforced with synthetic fiber reinforcement (geogrid) material. The other 3 (three) examples are reinforced with synthetic fiber reinforcement (geogrid) material and plastered with plaster mortar in accordance with the standards. The prepared samples were subjected to loading process in the diagonal loading mechanism and the vertical force-horizontal displacement and energy holding capacities calculated as a result of the experiment were calculated. The results of these calculations are compared to each other and the contribution of the geogrid used as synthetic fiber reinforcement to the characteristic features of the walls is examined.