CARACTERIZACIÓN MECÁNICA A COMPRESION Y TENSION DIAGONAL DE MURETES CONFORMADOS POR UNIDADES DE MAMPOSTERÍA HECHAS CON PAPEL PERIÓDICO RECICLADO Y ENGRUDO DE ALMIDÓN DE YUCA

Abstract

This article describes the conception process, researching development and implementation process at the laboratory level of a masonry unit with top and bottom semiovoid chock and made up from an established dosing among recycled news paper and paste of yucca starch. The implementation process developed has been used to make up a set of masonry unit to build the walls. About the walls it presents a developed methodology related to the constructive process focussed to walls in the real constructive context. This methodology was used to make up 6 walls assigned to the characterization of this mechanical behaviour in the two levels: axial compression and diagonal tension (axial compression and shear). A discussion about the behaviour of the wall in every level and its respective extrapolation to the analog solicitation in the real context are presented. Finally a feasibility analysis related to the structural application of the walls in the construction field of the civil engineering is argued. Keywords: walls, masonry unit, recycled newspaper, paste of yucca starch, compression strength, diagonal tension strength.