Download or read book Testing of Enhanced and Repaired Pier Walls of Modern Design written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this research was to repair six damaged pier walls from a previous Caltrans testing program and to compare the strength, ductility and cross-tie performance of the repaired pier walls with the original undamaged pier walls. Two different repair techniques were utilized. The experimental results achieved by repairing the damaged pier walls were comparable with the original undamaged pier walls. To assess the structural performance of reduced scale models with that of full-scale models, two full scale pier walls were also built and tested. A good correlation between half-scale and full-scale walls was achieved for displacement ductility factors and curvatures. Accordingly experimental results obtained from half-scale samples can be applied to pier walls in the field.