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Guidelines regarding housing typologies in Guatemala, with a special focus on adobe brick house. Buildings made of adobe brick masonry can still be found in all parts of Guatemala both in rural...
This document is written for building professionals with two key objectives: 1. To improve the understanding of the poor seismic performance of reinforced concrete frame buildings with masonry...
Adobe mud blocks are one of the oldest and most widely used building materials. Use of these sun-dried blocks dates back to 8000 B. C. (Houben and Guillard 1994). The use of adobe is very common...
Guidelines regarding housing typologies in Guatemala, with a special focus on confined masonry buildings with concrete blocks, tie-columns and beams. The February 1976 earthquake caused severe...
Peru is located in a seismic area. From time to time earthquakes occur which affect inadequately constructed houses, causing major damage and in many cases partial or total collapse.
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Guidelines regarding housing typologies in Guatemala, with a special focus on adobe construction with sawn timber roof framing and corrugated iron sheeting. This very small building doubles as a...