Behaviour of ferrocement encased square reinforced concrete column under eccentric loading

Abstract

This paper investigates the behaviour of ferrocement encased square reinforced concrete (RC) columns subjected to monotonically increasing small eccentric load. Three different types of square jacketing techniques have been studied experimentally to find out the effectiveness of ferrocement confinement of RC columns against eccentric loading. Six scaled down ferrocement jacketed specimens (two from each group) and two non jacketed scaled down specimens (square RC columns) were tested for this purpose. The results obtained from this study show that the benchmark specimens (column without ferrocement encasement) fail with non-ductile mode of failure when the load reaches to its peak value. However, in case of jacketed specimens load carrying capacity and ductility performance are obtained to be more than those obtained from benchmark specimen.