TY - GEN
T1 - OUT-OF-PLANE FAILURE RESISTANCE OF ADOBE FACADES IN CUENCA-ECUADOR FOR DIFFERENT SEISMIC ACCELERATIONS
AU - Cárdenas-Haro, Xavier
AU - Tarque, Nicola
AU - Todisco, Leonardo
AU - León, Javier
AU - Pino, Julver
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, University of Cantabria - Building Technology R&D Group. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - A considerable amount of the world's population lives in houses built with raw earth, using different techniques such as adobe, mud, bahareque, cob, etc. This research studies buildings built with adobe located in the city of Cuenca-Ecuador, which since 1999 is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The buildings studied have different geometric and material configurations, but all have adobe-bearing walls. This article performs an analysis of the seismic vulnerability of the adobe facade walls. The study considers 45 buildings with one and several floors, studying the behavior before outof- plane loads and for five different failure mechanisms for different seismic intensities. The behavior of the facade walls is analyzed under the capacity-demand methodology, in which an analysis of the main factors that determine the operation in the event of an earthquake of a certain magnitude is established. As a main result, this procedure has made it possible to establish a classification of buildings according to the degree of seismic vulnerability, in addition to establishing the influence of certain parameters on the variability of seismic vulnerability.
AB - A considerable amount of the world's population lives in houses built with raw earth, using different techniques such as adobe, mud, bahareque, cob, etc. This research studies buildings built with adobe located in the city of Cuenca-Ecuador, which since 1999 is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The buildings studied have different geometric and material configurations, but all have adobe-bearing walls. This article performs an analysis of the seismic vulnerability of the adobe facade walls. The study considers 45 buildings with one and several floors, studying the behavior before outof- plane loads and for five different failure mechanisms for different seismic intensities. The behavior of the facade walls is analyzed under the capacity-demand methodology, in which an analysis of the main factors that determine the operation in the event of an earthquake of a certain magnitude is established. As a main result, this procedure has made it possible to establish a classification of buildings according to the degree of seismic vulnerability, in addition to establishing the influence of certain parameters on the variability of seismic vulnerability.
KW - Adobe
KW - Capacity
KW - Demand
KW - Mechanism
KW - Seismic vulnerability
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85142231758
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85142231758
SN - 9788409422524
T3 - REHABEND
SP - 1184
EP - 1192
BT - REHABEND 2022 - Construction Pathology, Rehabilitation Technology and Heritage Management
A2 - Blanco, Haydee
A2 - Boffill, Yosbel
A2 - Lombillo, Ignacio
PB - University of Cantabria - Building Technology R&D Group
T2 - 9th Euro-American Congress on Construction Pathology, Rehabilitation Technology and Heritage Management, REHABEND 2022
Y2 - 13 September 2022 through 16 September 2022
ER -
