Damaged structures are first examined for their rehabilitation rather than their demolition and reconstruction.
Designing the scheme or method for structural rehabilitation of such structures demands a special address for structural design dynamics.
Parameters of the damaged structure often reach close to their reject limit and to bring them well within their acceptable limits, demands augmentation of those parameters. This is usually done with external treatment but this is to be validated with the structural design.
For example if the structure is identified to be weak in shear at a particular location then its structural design mechanics can be analysed to find out effects of this weakness on other parameters like bending moment or split shear or ductility etc. This is essential because while designing augmentation measures for weak parameter of shear, it should not happen that other parameter is ignored or not considered for its healthiness. It is imperative that while designing the rehabilitation scheme for compensating one parameter, some other parameter is adversely affected to create new area of structural weakness.
Structural rehabilitation is a 3600 process which requires all round analytical approach to design a sound scheme for making it totally successful when implemented at site.
Accord Specialities Contracting LLC works with this applied knowledge background to execute every assignment of structural rehabilitation with perfect understanding the logic and design philosophy for making it a success in achieving desired functional life of the rehabilitated elements, members and the structure as a whole.
