Keywords
seismic resistance
laboratory tests
heritage buildings
Key Words Plus
Architectural heritage – Testing
Earthquakes and building - Testing
Building
adobe - Research
How to Cite
Abstract
Between the years 2001 and 2003 the Materials and StructuresResearch Group grime, carried out technical inspections of theconstruction systems of the buildings that were declared nationalheritage in the Colombian Andean zone –many of them made withadobe–. Based on the results of this study, three adobe walls, representativeof the religious buildings of the Andean region, wereconstructed and subjected to pseudo-dynamic cyclic loads parallelto their main plane. Based on the results of these tests the characteristicsof the behaviour of the walls under cyclic loads applied intheir main planes were established. Later, two retrofitted walls withsteel tensors were constructed and subjected to loads parallel totheir main plane. The retrofitting alternative improved the behaviourof the adobe walls maintaining the integrity of the wall.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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