In-Service Durability Performance of Water Tanks
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 20, Issue 2
Abstract
With an alarmingly increased rate of deterioration in reinforced concrete structures due to durability performance, efforts are being made to quantify in situ performance. Performance is a function of time and it is related to degradation and the parameters influencing it. Although state-of-the-art modeling of various deterioration mechanisms is available in the literature, evaluation of the influence of various deterioration mechanisms that decrease performance with time is difficult. However, in situ condition documentation, survey, and assessment of deteriorated structures reflect the resultant deterioration process and also helps in validation of experimental and theoretical methods of performance evaluation. In this research, a systematic in situ condition documentation, survey, and assessment of water tank structures has been done based on an empirical damage scale similar to that suggested in the literature and a bilinear graphical deterioration model for such water retaining structures in a semitropical region like India is presented on the basis of case studies.
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Acknowledgment
The writers are grateful to All India Council of Technical Education, New Delhi for providing financial assistance in the form of the R&D Project entitled “Knowledge based expert system for evaluation of residual service life and repair strategies for concrete structures.”
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 20 • Issue 2 • May 2006
Pages: 136 - 145
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© 2006 ASCE.
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Received: Oct 5, 2004
Accepted: May 13, 2005
Published online: May 1, 2006
Published in print: May 2006
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