Assessment of strength parameters of URM blocks in heritage structures in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Garciano, Lessandro Estelito, Campado, Darlene Clarice, Castillo, Nitchell Andrei, Odiamar, Mary Grace, Tongco, Marcelino
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Adobe brick—Philippines—Testing; Historic buildings; Structural analysis (Engineering); Strains and stresses; Civil Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2883
• Institution: De La Salle University

Unreinforced masonry (URM) heritage structures, because of their rudimentary building techniques, are vulnerable during extreme environmental events, particularly earthquake. Limited literature involving these structures provide challenges for sound engineering solutions in their preservation, consi...