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Beam column joint is an important component of reinforced concrete frames and these joints
should be designed and detailed properly, especially for cyclic loading, as for example when the
frame is subjected to earthquake loading. Recent awareness of a potential seismic event in low to
moderate seismicity regions of Saudi Arabia have led to concerns of the safety and vulnerability
of reinforced concrete buildings, in which ductile detailing has not been provided explicitly in
the design process. Most of the buildings designed in these regions are based on gravity load and
wind loads and their behavior would be non-ductile in case of a seismic event and which could
The objective of this study is to investigate the behavior of poor detailed beam-column joints
under vertical cyclic & static load. These beam-column joints are representative of existing
Three types of specimens were tested with different detailing and reinforcement, out of which
two were having with small “ρ” and one with higher “ρ”, experimental result shows two type of
failure between small and high “ρ”, the specimens with lower “ρ” fails due to flexural failure and
specimens with high “ρ” fails due to failure of joint under shear which is validated by the
mechanistic /experimental computations and also by DIANA modeling using Drucker-Prager
CFRP retrofitting of beam column joints were also studied by modeling the ITU specimens with
very low compressive strength concrete in DIANA and the Finite Element analysis shows very
good correlation with experimental results for both control and retrofitted specimens.