STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS PROVIDED BY A HOUSE BUILT WITH LOAD-BEARING WALLS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE: COMPARISON WITH THE TRADITIONAL METHOD

Abstract

Our country Ecuador, located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, in the zone with the highest seismicity on the planet, is interacted by the Nazca plate, generating more than tectonic activity, the volcanic activity and its local fault systems, which makes each region a site of much seismic activity. Specifically in the Portoviejo canton, Manabí province, these natural disasters have caused severe damage to many civil works built and consequently human losses due in some cases to high-magnitude seismic processes and in others to poor engineering practice. One of the most common problems that occurs in traditional construction systems is the lack of rigidity and resistance to lateral load in one and/or two directions, as well as, on some occasions, the low resistance of the structural elements due to gravitational load. required by the small section of columns and/or due to the insufficient support of the foundation. This is why a different model is introduced for both design and construction, in the case of one- and two-story low-income housing, to solve the housing deficit and, above all, to safeguard the lives of those who inhabit them, based on in the use of load-bearing walls built with metal formwork based on forms and the use of solid slabs for the roof, mezzanine and foundation, providing great structural strengths, a topic of interest in this treatise. It is wanted to demonstrate through a comparative analysis the structural characteristics of social housing, between traditional construction systems and load-bearing wall systems built with metal formwork based on forms, for which a synthesis analysis, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics were used, expert criteria, modeling - simulation, for each research task carried out.

Keywords: civil engineering, home building, households, bearing walls, traditional method, comparison.