Análisis estructural de mamposterías como una alternativa para edificaciones post covid 19

Abstract

Abstract: In Ecuador, bricks and blocks are the materials mostly used for construction. construction, with 30.8% and 65.2% respectively, elements that for its elaboration use enormous amounts of energy and natural resources, generating great pollution environmental. In addition, the materials used for traditional construction systems They have very high prices in the market, making it practically impossible to obtain of a house for a poor family, even more so with the impact that COVID 19 generated in everyone. In the present work, houses with concrete walls are analyzed and designed. structural masonry that are considered structures of social interest, which are configured with ecological soil-cement bricks of various sections and characteristics mechanical. Internally reinforced and confined masonry systems were designed for bricks bricks and lego-type bricks with perforations, obtaining four types of housing according to the brick characteristics. The results obtained show that the solid soil-cement bricks used for confined masonry walls in two-story homes work well against efforts of the structure and earthquakes; however, the lego bricks used for internally reinforced masonry walls, when stressed by seismic events in two-story houses they have large deformations, but not in one-story structures. plant, so its use is recommended in homes with this characteristic.