Restoration of a Historic Adobe Church
Publication: Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction
Volume 20, Issue 1
Abstract
Historic and therefore older adobe buildings, because of the nature of their construction, always suffer severe damage during major earthquakes. This paper describes the rehabilitation of an almost 100-year-old adobe church using welded-steel mesh as a stability retrofit measure. The objectives of the rehabilitation were to create a structure capable of surviving a strong seismic event and to do so without damaging the original dynamics and architectural character of the building. The church has 7.9-m-high lateral adobe walls and a timber-truss roof system. The slenderness ratio of the walls is . Since its rehabilitation, this church has successfully withstood 16 earthquakes with magnitudes from 4.1 to 6.0.
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Acknowledgments
The authors thank the National Institute of Culture of Perú for sponsoring the project and the Regional Government of Piura for providing construction funding. Mr. Jorge Barrantes of the construction company supplied critical information about the execution of the project.
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Volume 20 • Issue 1 • February 2015
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Received: Sep 9, 2012
Accepted: Jan 31, 2014
Published online: Mar 12, 2014
Published in print: Feb 1, 2015
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