RT journal article
T1 Mechanical characterization and elastic stiffness degradation of unstabilized rammed earth
A1 Gil-Martín, Luisa María
A1 Fernández Ruiz, Manuel Alejandro
A1 Hernández-Montes, Enrique
A2 Ingeniería Industrial e Ingeniería Civil
K1 Rammed earth
K1 Creep
K1 Compressive strength
K1 Mechanical properties
K1 Instantaneous response after creep
AB Rammed earth is attracting renewed interest due to its sustainability. In this work, a mechanicalcharacterization of unstabilized rammed earth is presented. Compressive strength, Young’smodulus, and Poisson’s ratio were determined, with the first of these being the most representativemechanical property of rammed earth. Stress – strain curves were obtained from uniaxialcompression tests. Creep is of great importance in the long-term assessment of historical buildingsand in the design of new ones. Samples of rammed earth were subjected to a constant load for 15days to study their creep behavior. In order to simulate the long-term behavior of the material,different rheological models were fitted to the experimental results. The instantaneous deformationof rammed earth samples caused by a sudden additional load (maintaining a previousservice load level) was also studied. This is the first time that this phenomenon, called elasticstiffness degradation, has been studied for rammed earth material.
PB ELSEVIER
SN 2352-7102
YR 2022
FD 2022-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27294
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27294
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-nov-2026