Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Structures
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The official GTU curriculum for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Structures (subject code ME02014101) as prescribed for C(EA · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 36 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME02014101)Unit 1 MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR STRATEGIES
- Repair and Rehabilitation
- Facets of Maintenance
- Importance of Maintenance
- Various aspects of Inspection
- Assessment procedure for evaluating a damaged structure
- causes of deterioration Non destructive testing
Unit 2 SERVICEABILITY AND DURABILITY OF CONCRETE
- Quality assurance for concrete – Strength
- Durability and Thermal properties of concrete
- different types
- causes – Effects due to climate
- Sustained elevated temperature
- Corrosion – Effects of cover thickness and cracking
Unit 3 MATERIALS FOR REPAIR
- Special concretes and mortar
- concrete chemicals
- special elements for accelerated strength gain
- Expansive cement
- polymer concrete
- sulphur infiltrated concrete
- Ferro- cement
- Fibre reinforced concrete
Unit 4 TECHNIQUES FOR REPAIR AND PROTECTION
- METHODS Rust eliminators and polymers coating for rebars during repair
- foamed concrete
- mortar and dry pack
- vacuum concrete
- Gunite and Shotcrete Epoxy injection
- Mortar repair for cracks
- shoring and underpinning
- Methods of corrosion protection
- corrosion inhibitors
- corrosion resistant steels
- coatings and cathodic protection
- Engineered demolition techniques for dilapidated structures – case studies
Unit 5 REPAIR, REHABILITATION AND RETROFITTING OF
- STRUCTURES Repairs to overcome low member strength
- Chemical disruption
- weathering corrosion
- leakage and marine exposure