bachelorThesis
Comportamiento sísmico de paredes de adobe en el plano
Fecha
2020-10-15Autor
Pesántez Alvarado, Walter Santiago
Portugal Puma, Juan Daniel
Institución
Resumen
The Ecuadorian city Cuenca was declared Cultural heritage of Humanity since 1999.
The main reason for this award is due the great variety of colonial buildings and the
history inside each one of them. However, most of them buildings are build with
adobe, this material have some features as low manufacturing costs and termal
isolotation.
On the other hand, the main risk with this type of construction is given by its high
vulnerability to seismic events. Under this premise, in this thesis an evaluation of
adobe buildings is made. Firstly, the behavior of adobe walls in the plane is validated,
through methods that capture the deformation that occurs in the wall when subjected
to a horizontal load. Secondly, in an extensive bibliographic review several trials
were found to validate the chosen method, highlighting the equivalent gantry macroelement method.
For the last one, there must be formulations required by the method for both shear
and flex failures. In the literature there is only one formulation applied for shear
failures, for this reason in this thesis the formulation verified in other works in brick
masonry is validated in adobe. Finally, using the Ruaumoko program, the walls found
are modeled and then compared with the results obtained.