Evaluación del comportamiento mecánico y modelación numérica a muros de mampostería de ladrillos cocidos y ladrillos suelo-cemento

Abstract

Abstract: The production of the conventional masonry materials typology generates a lot of environmental pollution and an enormous amount of waste, for these reasons, nowadays there has been great worldwide interest in using natural materials to mitigate this problem. The soil product of excavations is seen as waste, however, it can be valued as a construction material through different techniques such as the incorporation of stabilizing agents like cement. With this purpose, the objective of this research work is to evaluate the behavior of the materials that make up masonry walls experimentally and computationally for their application in prototypes of walls based on soil-cement bricks and fired bricks, the results of which will be experimentally validated under compression diagonal in future research. The characterization of sources materials was carried out through physical, chemical and mineralogical tests, sand-cement and soil-cement mortars were designed and elaborated, also, through compression tests the optimal dosages in weight ratio were determined, obtaining 4:1 for sand-cement and 3:1 for soil-cement respectively. Finally, the physical mechanical characterization of pieces of fired bricks and soil-cement bricks was carried out.