Air Force Base

Project Description

Kelly Air Force Base (KAFB), United States' oldest military airfield, is the home of Air Logistics Center and the Air Force Electronic Security Command in San Antonio, Texas. The building housing the Air Force Electronic Security Command started to exhibit distress in the flat slab which resulted in concerns regarding its performance and adequacy for its intended use. CA performed a building condition assessment, identified the cause of distress, and replicated the in-place conditions in a computer model of the building using finite element analysis. The results from the analysis were further used to locate the problem areas in the building and they were verified by comparing them to the already existing distress in the structure. CA designed a fiber reinforced composite repair system to restore the integrity of structural members and their performance.