Multifamily building with three levels of ferrocement

Abstract

The work is concibed for the necessity of studying new materials that allow to build
resistant housings of up to three levels, worthy, sure, economic and sustainable. As the
ferrocement, a mortar highly reinforced with metallic mesh, offers wide possibilities
in the execution of these premises. It leaves of previous works carried out in Cuba by
the authors and realize the study, keeping in mind the growing demand of housings
of low cost and the shortage of offers in this sense. In this is carried out the structural
modelation keeping in mind the physical-mechanical characteristics of the ferrocement
and the other materials that intervene in a building of housings of 3 plants with
walls and floor of nervouspanels of ferrocement of 3 cm of thickness as well as the
seismic load corresponding to Cuba. The modelation includes the discretization of
the structure in finite elements, what facilitates an integral study of the elements of
supports and closings, as well as the evaluation of the connections among them, later
is carried out the design of the ferrocement panels being proven substantial savings
of materials with relationship to the traditional housings. This constitutes the starting
point for the development of detailed executive projects and tipologys of housings is
studied that will generate the future development of constructive systems