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Design of Social Housing in South America with Textile Reinforced Concrete

2024

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This master’s project, developed within Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EESD) laboratory at the ENAC faculty of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), aims to assess and improve innovative and economical housing solutions in Nicaragua. Set against a backdrop of ongoing socio-economic and environmental challenges, this initiative targets the critical need for affordable and safe housing. The project explores two main con-cepts : first, the verification of an existing structure that utilizes lightweight, industrialised con-struction methods requiring minimal manpower, and second, the conception of new structural elements aimed at enhancing the building’s structural performance and ease of implementation.

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2024

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/f38f52f0-b14a-47b5-8a21-42542ce493c6

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Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants. Their work takes account mainly of safety, technical, economic, and environmental concerns, but they may also consider aesthetic and social factors. Structural engineering is usually considered a specialty discipline within civil engineering, but it can also be studied in its own right.

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Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of human-made structures. Structural engineers also must understand and calculate the stability, strength, rigidity and earthquake-susceptibility of built structures for buildings and nonbuilding structures. The structural designs are integrated with those of other designers such as architects and building services engineer and often supervise the construction of projects by contractors on site.

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