Reforzamiento del adobe con malla metálica para el mejoramiento de las condiciones resistentes

Abstract

Adobe was used throughout history as a constructive element on land for the construction of buildings. Within Latin America in several countries their ancestors used the adobe piece as a predominant material for the construction of their empirically elaborated houses, however today a large number of these houses (especially rural areas) present damage caused by various factors such as : seismic events, climatic phenomena, etc. For this reason, the use of adobe for construction causes a distrust of it in society, even being related to the term poverty. Due to this problem, our objective is to improve the resistance of the adobe by choosing to include the metallic mesh in its composition as a rigid material that reinforces the piece of land. For this reason, this research work is based on experimenting with nine types of adobe, each one reinforced with metal mesh, differing from one another by the shape of the mesh (cut or bent) that it has. These forms were made manually in the carpentry of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, then transported to the San José de Balzay site (place of the adobera) to later be placed in the different types of adobe during the molding stage. Each type of reinforced adobe plus artisanal adobe represents a case study (ten cases), which are subjected to different types of tests (compression test; bending test and compression test on walls) to compare the respective results obtained from the reinforced adobe against the result of the handmade adobe, thus verifying the behavior of the metallic mesh in the piece of each case. The results of the tests show that several of the cases of adobe reinforced with metallic mesh are superior to artisan adobe, determining that the metallic mesh influences the increase of the mechanical properties of the piece and satisfies the objectives set