How to Repair Flexible Concrete Buildings

Explore the common deficiencies in non-ductile, flexible concrete buildings and time-tested prescriptions to improve performance and maximize longevity in this online engineering course. Developed by Professor Metwally, this online course outlines the best practices, tools and procedures for the visual evaluation and inspection of the deficiencies in non-ductile (aka flexible) concrete buildings. This course, which is available for PDH engineering credits, also prescribes specific retrofits and repair work to address specific deficiencies in a well-organized (and digestible) manner. Such weaknesses or failures in non-ductile concrete buildings covered by Professor Metwally include problems with shear-critical columns, beam column joints, slab-column connections, splice and connectivity, soft-story mechanisms, frames, overturning mechanisms, vertical irregularity and pounding.

Course Intention

Most of engineers, researchers, professional and consultant engineers in structural engineering want to learn how to accurately assess and repair existing concrete buildings. The challenge comes in finding quality information and case studies to overcome this problem. This online professional development course steps through how (and when) to retrofit non-ductile concrete buildings in order to address this ever-increasing need.

Learning Objectives

• Understand enhanced procedures for identifying non-ductile concrete building systems vulnerable to collapse, including simple tools that don't require detailed analysis.
• Describe updated acceptance criteria for concrete components based on latest research results.
• Identify cost-effective mitigation strategies (i.e. retrofits) for specific deficiencies to reduce collapse risk in existing flexible concrete buildings.
• Comprehend the technical data required to make informed decisions on whether or not flexible concrete buildings need repair.