| dc.description.abstract | This project focuses on evaluating the physic and
mechanic properties of mortars elaborated in the
construction place using the tradicional method,
including joint mortars and mortars made for
covering masonry walls, as well as the properties
of the industrialized Multiuso mortars, Pegablock
and Repello Grueso, produced by PEDREGAL
Company.
In order to develop the project, six
construction projects with masonry systems were
visited, all of them in the surroundings of the
province of Cartago. Mortar samples in actual
field conditions were taken from each of them,
and then they were compared with the results
obtained in laboratory tests.
Adicionally, it was studied the
contribuition of the mortar on the compression
strength of the masonry through the manufacture
of concrete block prisms, using blocks produced
by PEDREGAL company, and joined with
traditional, Multiuso and Pegablock mortars.
The research concludes by analizing the
aplication of the ASTM C-270 norm ("Standar
specification for masonry mortars") and it's
fulfillment in the field, according to the CSCR-02
code ("Costa Rica Sysmic Code") | |
