Title
Stone Bags Seismic Isolation for Vernacular Earth and Stone Construction
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Publisher(s)
Springer Netherlands
Abstract
The Andean Region is permanently affected by earthquakes and its rich cultural heritage is a prey to relentless destruction. Built on earth and stone, they are an important vulnerability factor. This article considers the case of old Caral (5000 years old), built with their own ancestral seismic knowledge. Experimental research to achieve earthquake resistant earthen buildings began in Peru almost half a century ago and was concentrated on social housing. 13 years later it cover the vernacular patrimonial one. The need to have Conservation Principles adopted by the National Committees of ICOMOS, such as since 2012 the case of Peru, is in order to apply criteria of deep knowledge of the cultural heritage, minimal and respectful intervention, use of reinforcements of compatible materials and reversible solutions, which provides greater durability in spite of natural disasters (Earthquakes producing collapses of constructions and Enso associated to rains and floods). This Project was developed through an Agreement of the Ministry of Housing of Peru and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Start page
1528
End page
1536
Volume
18
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de la construcción
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85052301933
Source
RILEM Bookseries
ISSN of the container
2211-0844
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus