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NATURAL HAZARDS
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
OF MASONRY HOUSES
For masons and craftsmen
MARCIAL BLONDET
Editor
SENCICO
Technical Consultant: Ing. Carmen Kuroiwa
Technical Consultant: Ing. Gabriela Esparza
AUTHORS
PUCP
Director: Dr. Eng. Marcial BlondetConstruction: Eng. Iván Bragagnini
Structures: Mag. Eng. Gianfranco Ottazzi
Architecture: Arch. Mariana Bidart
Research Assistant: Eng. Nicola Tarque
Research Assistant: Eng. Miguel Mosqueira
Design and edition: Arch. Mariana Bidart
Art: Mr. Víctor Sanjinez
Translation: Eng. Gladys Villa Garcia
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF MASONRY HOUSES
Second edition: January 2005Version 3.0
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF MASONRY HOUSESFor masons and craftsmen
© Marcial Blondet
© Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúUniversity Avenue, San Miguel, Lima 32, PeruPhone 626-2000E mail: [email protected]
© SENCICOCanada Avenue 1568, San Borja, Lima 41, PeruPhone 475-3821E mail: [email protected]
Total or partial reproduction of this publication by any means is permitted al long as the source iscredited.
Printed in Peru
Acknowledgements
The authors thank the following persons and institutions for their help in the elaboration of thisbooklet:
- To PUCP students Miguel Baca, Joen Bazán, Michael Dueñas, Roberto Flores, Sandra Godenzi, JohanLaucata, José Puente, Paúl Rojo and Carla Valdivieso. They visited various cities of the Peruviancoast to collect information about informal constructions.
- To engineers Julio Arango, Antonio Blanco, Carlos Casabonne, Héctor Gallegos, Gerardo Jáuregui,Alejandro Muñoz, Pablo Orihuela, Julio Rivera and Ángel San Bartolomé. All of them reviewed apreliminary version of this booklet and contributed with valuable suggestions.
-To Professor Richard Klingner for his contributions to the second version of the booklet and for hisreview of the translation from Spanish to English.
- To the Dirección Académica de Investigación (Academic Direction of Research) of the PUCP and toSENCICO for the economic support given to carry out on-site activities and to develop this booklet.
- To the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) of California, U.S.A. for the funding of thesecond printing of this booklet.
In appreciation
The authors wish to state that they have been inspired and have taken material from the followingexcellent booklets about masonry construction:
- Gallegos, Ríos, Cassabonne, Ucelli, Icochea and Arango. 1995. Construyendo con ladrillo(Building with Brick), CAPECO, Lima, Perú.
- Asociación Colombiana de Ingeniería Sísmica (Colombian Association of EarthquakeEngineering). 2001. Manual de construcción, evaluación y rehabilitación sismo resistentede viviendas de mampostería (Handbook for construction, evaluation and seismicrehabilitation of masonry houses). AIS, Colombia.
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF MASONRY HOUSES
6Chapter 1: Natural Hazards
Natural hazards in Peru1
Earthquakes2
8Chapter 2: The earthquake resistant house
3
1 Adequate locations
Inadequate locations2
The safe house
The earthquake resistant house
4 Configuration of an earthquake-resistant house
The unsafe house5
6
7 Components of the building utilities
Chapter 3: Construction of a safe house 18
Confining beams
Drawings and other administrative procedures
Cleaning and leveling the land
Layout
Construction of the foundation
Column rebar assembly
Walls
Pouring concrete in confining columns
Lightweight slab
Stairs
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Efflorescence
Corrosion of reinforcing steel
Cracked walls
Chapter 4: Maintaining your house
Wall moisture
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53Chapter 5: Plans for your house
Why are drawings useful?
The design of your house
Sample house plans
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3
82References
83Appendix
Quantity of walls in an earthquake-resistant house
Schedule of material quantities
Concrete types
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Peru is located in aseismic area. Fromtime to timeearthquakes occurwhich affectinadequatelyconstructed houses,causing majordamage and in manycases partial or totalcollapse.
In this booklet wewill show you howto build earthquake-resistant houses.Remember theimportance ofconsulting a CivilEngineer beforepreparing yourdrawings andconstructing yourhouse.
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Earthquakes can produce significant damageto inadequately designed and constructedhouses. For example, parapets can fall,window glass can break or walls can crack.Houses with severe structural problems cancollapse, causing major material loss, seriousinjury to its occupants and even theregrettable loss of lives.
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Walls confined by beams and columns resist earthquakes. If you want your house to be
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2 Cleaning and leveling the land
Once you buy your parcel of land in anadequate location, you must design your
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The construction sitemust be level, andabove the drainpipesfor your area.To level the siteyou must cut andfill the ground, sothat ultimately it iscompletely flat at therequired level.
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You can do this simple test.
If your soil is not gravel or rock, how can you recognize what type it is?
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Excavating the foundation trenches
If it is difficult to
level the bottom of
the trench, you can
pour a poor
concrete mix
(1:10) so that the
bottom of the
trench is level.
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Dig out the foundation
trenches using thechalk marks as
guidelines.
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Wetting thetrenches
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Recommendations
You can leave holes in the foundation for the pipes, using larger-diameter pipes. Before pouring
concrete for the foundation, fill the pipes with sand and seal them temporarily.
Never leave sand bags in the foundation to provide holes for crossing pipes.
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Standing column reinforcing bars
Assemble thereinforcing bars foreach column. Then
stand the assembly inplace where the column
will be. On page 26you will find details.
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Have the utilities and plumbing for yourhouse ready before laying the foundations.
The pipes must never pass through anyreinforced concrete element such as
columns, beams or roof joists.
Pipes crossing continuous
footings must have a diameter
less than 15 cm (6 in.)
Tolerance
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pass over the footing, try to
make sure that all of them
cross at the plinth.7
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Steel reinforcementin the plinth
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It is better if you rent a small-capacity mixer toprepare concrete. This will help control qualityand save materials. Pre-assing the peoplewho will help you mixi and pour the concrete.
Pouring concrete for the foundation
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Concrete for the plinth
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When you finish pouring concrete on the plinth,scratch the upper surface with a nail so that
the mortar of the first layer sticks well.
You can hand mix the concrete for the plinth. Clean a flat area where the mix will beprepared. A concrete floor is desirable. Mix the dry materials and then add water. If themix is not workable, you can add a little more water. Wet the forms with water beforepouring. To pour the concrete you can use buckets or wheelbarrows. Remember not toplace big stones in areas near columns.
The plinth
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Reinforcement
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Dimensions
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Recommendation
Never weld steel reinforcing bars.
Never lap splice 4 barsin the same-crosssection along thecolumn because thisweakens the column.
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Recommendation
Always use fresh mortar. Do not use mortar that is starting to harden.
The mortar
6 Walls
Preparing the bricks
The day before building the walls,clean the bricks and water themfor 20 minutes. Then,let them rest.
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Constructing the wall
Use theplumb-bob
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the wall is vertical.
Levelcontrol
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For the construction of the first course, place mix uniformlyover the plinth using a bricklayer’s trowel. Set thebricks over the mix and verify that their edges touchthe strings that connects the guide bricks.To set successive layers, place the mix over theimmediately below and fill the vertical joints completely.
Horizontal and verticaljoints
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Daily progress
Do not raise the wall more than 1.20 m high each working day. If you raise a greaterwall height, it might fall because the mortar mix will still be fresh.
Column-wall connection
If you decide not to leave a toothed walledge, place 2 # 8 wires every two layers
anchored 50 cm inside the wall.
Leave toothed edges at the sidesof the wall next to every column toprovide adequate confinement forthe wall.
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Electrical installations in the walls
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Embed the drain and ventilationpipes inside false columns that areformed between the toothed walls.Place #8 wire every three layersand wrap the pipes with #16 wire.
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7 Pouring concrete in confining columns
After the walls are built, attach formwork to the walls for the confining columns. It isbetter if you use a portable concrete mixer to prepare concrete for columns. Use bucketsto carry the concrete mix from the mixer to the upper part of the formwork.Carefully pour the concrete inside the forms.
Formwork and pouring
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Curing
Formwork removal
Recommendation
If a column has a large number of voids, immediately break and remove the concrete, carefully clean
the steel bars, replace the formwork and pour again the concrete again.
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Cure concrete after removal of theforms from the columns. Curingconsists of watering the concreteelements at least 3 times a day toimprove hardening of cement.
After pouring concrete into the columns,leave the forms up for 24 hours.
Then carefully remove the forms anduse them again for other columns.
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Deep beams
8 Confining beams
The confining beams of your house areimportant because they help confine thewalls.Collar beams are the beams on topof the walls.
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Deep beams are used to resistthe weight of partition walls orof the roof. They transmit theload to columns and walls. Thedepth of this beams is greaterthan the thickness of the slabs.
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Stirrups are measured from the inner face of the wall.
Minimum concrete covering for deep beams is 3 cm measured from the stirrup and for flat beams is
2.5 cm
Recommendations
Flat beams
Be careful when you splicereinforcement bars inbeams. Upperreinforcement bars must bespliced at the center of thebeam span. Lowerreinforcement bars mustbe spliced near the endsof the beam.
Rebar splices in beams
Flat beams are inside theslabs and help totransmit the weigh ofpartition walls to thecolumns and bearingwalls. It is better not tohave flat beams longerthan 4 m.
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Upper rebar splice: at the
center of the free span
Lower rebar splice: at the first or third part
of the free span.
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Spacers for beams
Beam-column connection
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In case the beam is not continuous,bend the steel bar horizontally.
To keep beam reinforcing bars in horizontal position,place mortar cubes 3 cm side under them.
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Incorporating lintels into the beam
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Door and window openings should go up to collar-beam level. Here are three ways ofmaking lintels over these openings.
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Pouring of beams
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Beam rebar assembly
Place the steel reinforcement bars of the collarbeams on top of the walls after removing theformwork from the columns.
All beams (collar, deep and flat) and lintelsare poured simultaneously with the slabs.
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Pipes/Plumbing in beams
Never bend beam rebars to pass drainage pipes.
NO
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Slab components
Lightweight slabs are formed with parallelreinforced concrete joists spaced at 40 cm.
Hollow bricks 30 cm wide and 15 cmhigh are placed betweenthe joists. On top of this,
a concrete slab 5 cm thick is poured.
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Component dimensions
The hollow ceiling bricks must be perfectlyaligned and the slab has to be level.
Temperature steelreinforcement
To prevent cracking of the upperslab due to temperature effects, youhave to place 1/4 in. steel barsevery 25 cm, perpendicular to thejoists.
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Slab formwork
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Recommendation
Never use inadequate materials such as cement bags, bricks or cardboard as formwork.
If you do, concrete elements will be distorted.
NO YES
Prepare slab formwork with wooden boards at least 1in. thick for each joist bed. Support the boards over2 in. x 4 in. wooden beams which rest upon
vertical wooden 2 in. x 3 in. posts.
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NATURAL HAZARDS
Connection between confining beam and joist rebar
Splices of joist rebars
If you have to splice the lower reinforcement bars in
a joist, do it in the extreme thirds of the free span.
Tie joist upper reinforcement bar to confinement beam reinforcement with #16 wire._b
*2+
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Recommendations
If you have to build lightweight with long spans, consult an engineer. Lightweight slabs of great
spans must be adequately designed to ensure their strength and safety.
Steel reinforcement necessary for each singlespan joist in a 20 cm lightweight slab system
Steel reinforcement necessary for each two span joist in a 20-cm lightweight slab system
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Pipes in lightweight slab
Recomendation
Find out in your area which entities provide public water and drainage service as well as electric
service and ask about the procedures you must follow so that your house can have connection to the
public water and drainage system and access to an electrical connection.
Water and drainage pipes must not cross lightweight slab joists. Pipe paths should beparallel to roof bricks alignment.
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Before pouring the slab
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Temporarily block the pipes with a lid and leave open only one end.
Fill the pipe with water and after 4 hours verify that all pipe connections are dry and that
there has not been any water leakage. In water pipelines, it is advantageous to make this leakage test
under pressure.
Before you pour the concrete slabs, verify that all water and drainage pipes do not leak.
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Fill the lightweight slab and beams simultaneously because it is important that they worktogether. Start pouring collar beams, then joists and finally the upper slab. It is betteryou rent a mixer. This will help reduce the pouring time for your slab and save materials.
Pouring slabs and beams
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Recomendation
Once the concrete slab is finished, the formwork must remain in place to support the slab for
at least 14 days.
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Curing the slab
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The slab must be constantly cured.Curing must start as soon as possible.Do not wait until the next day tostart. Form closed areaslimited by sand piles overthe slab and fill them withwater. You must cure theslab for at least 7 days.
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If you must stop pouring concrete inthe slab, make the
construction joint nearthe ends of the slab.
Never make theconstruction joint at
the center of the slab.
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NATURAL HAZARDS
Recomendation
When you pour stairs be careful to see that all reinforcing bars have adequate concrete cover.
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This chapter contains recommendationsfor the maintenance and solution of someproblems typical brick houses. If theproblems or defects of your house aremore serious, such as foundationsettlement or severe cracking of walls orconcrete elements, we suggest that youconsult an engineer to solve them.
Cracks or fissures in walls may haveseveral causes, such as use ofpoor-quality materials, inadequateconstructive practices, deficient structurewith too few confined walls in bothdirections or inadequate foundation oversoft or loose soils. If your house hasbeen poorly constructed and has some ofthese defects, it is possible that manyof its elements will fail when anearthquake occurs.
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Recommendation
If the walls of your house are severely cracked or have significant vertical cracks at the corners, it is
possible that your house is in danger. Get professional assistance as soon as possible to solve the
problem.
Repair of wall cracks
If any wall of your house has diagonalcracks not more than 1.5 mm thick andthe concrete of beams and columns is notseverely damaged, you can repair thewall in the following way:
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NATURAL HAZARDS
If any wall has broken or deteriorated bricks, youcan replace them in the following way:
Replacement of deteriorated bricks
Recommendations
If you need to replace more than one deteriorated brick, start with the lowest brick.
You can cut the new bricks so that they fit better in the openings left by the damaged bricks.
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2 Corrosion of reinforcing steel
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If beam and column steel reinforcement inyour house is not too corroded, you canrepair the problem the following way:
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When concrete covering is too thin or hasair pockets and fissures through whichmoisture penetrates, corrosion of thesteel reinforcement is produced. You canprevent this problem if you carefullyconstruct the beams and columnsof your house.
NATURAL HAZARDS
Recomendation
Try to prevent moisture penetration into the walls of your house so that efflorescence will not
appear again.
3 Efflorescence
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Efflorescence is a white or yellowishdeposit that appears in brick or concretewalls. Efflorescence appears whenconstruction materials or foundation soilscontains salts that are dissolved in water.Water raises through the wall until itreaches the surface and then evaporates,leaving salts crystals at the wall surface asstains.
To clean walls with moderate
efflorescence you can do the following:
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4 Wall moisture
Damp walls are almost always causedby leaking water pipes.To repair water leakages and thusprevent moisture accumulation in yourwalls, you can do the following:
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Before you start construction you musthave drawings which show theappearance of your house to be and howyou will build it. Architectural drawings
are scaled representations of how yourhouse will look, how many rooms it hasand how they are located. Structural
drawings indicate the locations anddimensions of the bearing walls, slabsroof reinforcement and dimensionsand steel reinforcement of beams andcolumns. Finally, mechanical, electrical
and plumbing drawings show theroute of water and sewage pipesand of electric conduits.
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A well-designed house has the followingcharacteristics:
!" It is earthquake-resistant. To achieve
this it must have a sufficient quantity ofconfined walls in both directions (SeeChapter 2 and Appendix).
!" It responds to your family’s present
and future needs.
!" It is easily constructed in stages.
!" All rooms have natural illumination and
ventilation.
!" Bedrooms are well located, far from
the noisiest areas, such as kitchen, diningand living rooms.
!" It has a patio or laundry.
!" It has a garden where you and your
family can grow flowers, trees orvegetables.
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Here is a two story house plan where a different family canlive on each floor. This house has all the drawingsnecessary to build it over hard soil (rock or gravel).Remember it has been designed to have onlytwo floors.
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1 Quantity of walls in an earthquake-resistant house
Your house has to have anadequate number of confinedwalls in both directions in orderto resist earthquakes.
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To calculate the number of walls needed for a house with amaximum of two stories, follow the indicated steps:
Wall calculations
Calculate the required horizontal area of confined walls for each floor.
Calculate the roof area covering each floor in square meters.
Determine the minimum wall density needed in each direction, according to your soil type. Use thefollowing table:
Classify the soil of the place where you will build your house. On page 22 you can learn how to determine the soil type.
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As an example, we will analyze the house proposed in Chapter 5. This house is locatedover hard soil and has 115.7 m" of roof area covering in the first floor and 98.7 m"covering the second floor, which gives a total roof covering area of 214.4 m".
We will calculate the areas ofour confined walls:
W1= 1.50 X 0.24 = 0.36 m"W2= 2.82 X 0.24 = 0.68 m"W3= 2.82 X 0.24 = 0.68 m"W4= 3.14 X 0.24 = 0.75 m"W5= 1.50 X 0.24 = 0.36 m"W6= 1.50 X 0.24 = 0.36 m"W7= 1.50 X 0.14 = 0.24 m"
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