Desempenho estrutural de edificações autoconstruídas – um estudo de caso

Abstract

This article introduces a study about self-built buildings, in other words, buildings erected by popular labor without formal technical knowledge. The objective of the study was to obtain more information about the structural performance of these buildings, through a case study carried out in Jaboatão dos Guararapes. The target building of the study had its geometry, dimensions, reinforcement and elements analyzed and its constitution was compared with computational models in order to obtain the safety coefficients. An oversizing of the reinforcements was found, generating large safety coefficients, which were harmed, however, by factors arising from execution without technological control.