With the increasing service life and the complex environment, the building structure is constantly facing new challenges. Decreased durability and insufficient bearing capacity have become common problems for most engineering structures. Reinforcement and reconstruction of structures to ensure structural safety is becoming an increasingly popular phenomenon.

So, can masonry structure reinforcement be treated in the same way as concrete structure reinforcement?

Masonry structure:

Bonding carbon fiber fabric reinforcement method is only suitable for shear reinforcement and seismic reinforcement in the plane of sintered ordinary brick walls.

In the reinforcement of masonry structures, ensuring the integrity of the structure is the focus of reinforcement.

Concrete structure:

It is suitable for the reinforcement of reinforced concrete under bending, compression and tensile members by carbon fiber fabric.

Compared with the concrete structure, the masonry structure has a certain gap in performance. The masonry structure is made of blocks, which has better compressive strength but is still lower than the concrete structure. On the other hand, in the masonry structure, the adjacent blocks above and below are connected by mortar, and the strength of the mortar is low, and the bonding strength with the block is weak, and it is susceptible to shear damage under horizontal load.