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FADU. Universidad Autnoma de Tamaulipas. Circuito interior S/N Campus Tampico-Madero. Tampico,
Tamaulipas. Mxico. yaranda@uat.edu.mx
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Centro de Investigacin Aplicada y Tecnolgica. Circuito Golfo de Mxico 200, Prticos de Miramar, CP
89506 Cd. Madero, Tamaulipas. Mxico.
ABSTRACT
The present work is intended to expose different results
obtained by the structural and thermal monitoring from
the study of an earth building; prototype of sustainable
housing designed for the city of Tampico, Tamaulipas at
Mexico that includes walls and slab characterization. A
study of thermal characteristics of the same prototype
and a mathematical model from the heat capacity,
density, and diffusivity constants taking into a count the
dimensional characteristics of the material engaging
such results was also developed. It was found poured
earth walls of 0.25 m thick, have not presented structural
problems during the monitoring time of nine months to
date, likewise, nor deterioration or disintegration and
have endured the inclement winter and two weeks of
continuous rain. Regarding the slab, it was found that it
is advisable that for bamboo-crete based system
thickness can be increased, fibers and additives can be
added to enhance its behavior. 0.20 m thick walls,
presented differences of over 10 C between the exterior
and interior temperature in the maximum values of
detected temperatures. In the slabs case of 7 cm thick,
similar results are obtained. Theoretical profile of
temperature in the transient has a sinusoidal behavior.
Keywords: poured
structural monitoring
earth,
thermal
transmittance,
I. INTRODUCTION
More than a third of the world population lives on earth
housing. There are several building systems for the
Architecture of raw earth, dividing itself in three great
groups: monolithic walls, masonry and mixed systems.
Poured earth is an ancestral technique and scarcely
researched within the group of monolithic systems (1,2).
This technique is very similar to rammed earth, therefore
some of the fundamentals that govern it were taken (3).
Same as rammed earth, poured earth technique requires a
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B. Temperature Monitoring
The temperature was registered during 9 months. For
effects of the present work, the monitoring of the month
of August is presented. On figure 1 are shown the points
where the interior and exterior superficial temperature of
the vertical elements and the slab were measured, for
which a Data-logger brand Hobbo On set Model U-12
equipment with thermocouples input, with the purpose
of measure temperature.
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II. RESULTS
A. Results in the housing prototype (pilot level).
Figure 2 presents the temperature results of the outer and
inside face of the slab.
q y k
dT
dy
dT
is obtained can be determined.
dy
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T B sin (t C
Where T , B ,
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