Rehabilitación de columnas fisuradas de hormigón armado aplicando varias soluciones, en un edificio de la Ciudad de Guayaquil, Ecuador

Abstract

The rehabilitation of a building is essential to guarantee the safety of the structure and its inhabitants. In the city of Guayaquil, a study is carried out on the columns of the second upper floor of a building that has been exposed to the environment for many years, leading to the deterioration of its structural elements, where the technical solutions for rehabilitation are analyzed. Destructive and non-destructive tests were carried out on the structural elements under analysis, information gathering was also carried out, visual inspection on each column where the current state of the building could be clearly verified, with this it was possible to propose technical rehabilitation solutions. such as the reinforced concrete cladding method and the Carbon Fiber method, this as a sustainable solution method. In the analysis carried out, it was possible to obtain correct data on the current state of the Building, such as the strength of the concrete, as well as the amount of existing steel, coating thicknesses, and state of the reinforcing steel. With the solutions proposed for the rehabilitation we guarantee the safety of the structure and that of the users who inhabit it. Keywords: Rehabilitation, Security, Sustainability, Building.