Humberto Varum
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Address: Civil Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
4200-465 Porto
Portugal
Address: Civil Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
4200-465 Porto
Portugal
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aspects concerning the tabique construction. Tabique is a traditional building technique
which applies raw building materials such as timber and earth, for example. External
and partition walls are the main tabique building components, which may have a
relevant structural performance in the overall stability of a building. In general, the
traditional tabique buildings are facing high levels of degradation. This problem is mainly due to the lack of maintenance and technical knowledge. Therefore,
reconstruction processes of this type of buildings also require accurate and
updated technical information related to materials, to building details, to the
main likely pathologies, to the knowledge of the physical and mechanical
behaviour of the building components, to the reinforcement solutions, among
other aspects. This research work intends to give some guidance in this context
and to make a parallel analysis between the Portuguese and the Turkish
tabique constructions.