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: Received: 25 February 2024 / Approved: 26 February 2024 / Online: 27 February 2024 (13:30:53 CET)
Version 2
: Received: 28 February 2024 / Approved: 28 February 2024 / Online: 29 February 2024 (11:55:52 CET)
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López-Ulloa, F.S.; Redondo Martínez, E.; Gil Crespo, I.J.; Goyes-Balladares, A.C.; Chávez-Rubio, L.E. The Collapse of the Vaults of the Ambato Matriz Church in the 1949 Earthquake: A Response with Technical Approach. Preprints2024, 2024021539. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1539.v2
López-Ulloa, F.S.; Redondo Martínez, E.; Gil Crespo, I.J.; Goyes-Balladares, A.C.; Chávez-Rubio, L.E. The Collapse of the Vaults of the Ambato Matriz Church in the 1949 Earthquake: A Response with Technical Approach. Preprints 2024, 2024021539. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1539.v2
López-Ulloa, F.S.; Redondo Martínez, E.; Gil Crespo, I.J.; Goyes-Balladares, A.C.; Chávez-Rubio, L.E. The Collapse of the Vaults of the Ambato Matriz Church in the 1949 Earthquake: A Response with Technical Approach. Preprints2024, 2024021539. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1539.v2
APA Style
López-Ulloa, F.S., Redondo Martínez, E., Gil Crespo, I.J., Goyes-Balladares, A.C., & Chávez-Rubio, L.E. (2024). The Collapse of the Vaults of the Ambato Matriz Church in the 1949 Earthquake: A Response with Technical Approach. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1539.v2
Chicago/Turabian Style
López-Ulloa, F.S., Andrea Cristina Goyes-Balladares and Luis Enrique Chávez-Rubio. 2024 "The Collapse of the Vaults of the Ambato Matriz Church in the 1949 Earthquake: A Response with Technical Approach" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1539.v2
Abstract
This research concerns the virtual reconstruction and technical constructive analysis of the emblematic and disappeared Matriz church of Ambato city, whose structure was demolished after the collapse of its vaults in the 1949 earthquake, about which it was said to have had deficiencies in its construction. Through an exhaustive historical review of documents and images, its constructive hypothesis was achieved, and using photogrammetry technique, its virtual reconstruction was obtained, where, through the interpretation and understanding of the generated plans, the verification of its technical and constructive characteristics associated with its hypothetical mechanical behavior inherent to its stone construction was carried out. For the structural study, the principle of the Limit Analysis of Structures was used, where through a graphic static approach, the technical stability conditions of a masonry structure are established, in this case, to give an interpretation to the possible poor execution of the church's work, and eventual cause that could have contributed to the collapse of its vaults.
Keywords
stone arches; vaults; resistance line; line of pressure; masonry structures
Subject
Engineering, Architecture, Building and Construction
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