comunicación de congreso
Structural feasibility of timber-structured vertical expansions for social housing buildings in Chile
Fecha
2018Autor
Schmitt Rivera, Cristián
Calderón Díaz, Sebastián Andrés
Cárcamo Chávez, Sebastián
Sandoval Mandujano, Cristián
Chateau Gannon, Francisco
Martínez Torres, María Paula
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Resumen
In this paper, the structural feasibility of expanding existing social housing buildings structured in reinforced concrete (RC) using timber structures is investigated. For this purpose, a 4-story housing block massively built throughout Chile - known as CORVI 1010 housing block-is selected as a case study. The proposal considers a 2-story platform frame expansion. The results show that timber-structured expansions have low impact on existing buildings, minimal increase on design stress and that strengthening of the original structure is not required.