Estudio patológico torre de cenizarios - parroquia La Sagrada Eucaristía barrio Pablo VI- Bogotá D.C.

Abstract

The Cenizarios tower is part of the Sagrada Eucaristia´s church. It’s located in Pablo VI neighborhood (location of Teusaquillo - Bogotá D.C.). It was built in 1992. The building presents an overturn on the northwestern side, as a consequence of differential sag. This is due to the conditions of your ground is susceptible to deformations in front of changes in the phreatic level and/or humidity of the subsoil the lesion is accentuated due to the type of foundation with which it was designed. The purpose of the pathological study is to identify and propose intervention alternatives to solve existing lesions in the patient. For this it was collected the existing information and constructed the clinical history, to identify and classify each of the lesions present, then was made the diagnosis of the patient which was complemented with a study of seismic vulnerability, taking into account that the tower was designed and built prior to the entry into force of the Colombian Seismic-Resistant Design Code of 1998. Besides the sinking found this structure doesn't satisfy the maximum permissible drift values, in the same way as with the minimum sections of beams and columns and structural steel; also it was possible to determine that the external walls are elements of brick of 16,84 meters in height, without any type of connection with the structure of the building, as well as with a little mortar in some of its sections, this generates a high risk before an eventual earthquake. As a result, were structured two technically viable intervention alternatives to attend the existing lesions, these differ from each other, respect to the intervention process for the recovery of verticality. It´s important to explain that this condition is not a risk for the stability of the construction since the main axis is the reinforcement of the structure and foundations, as well as the replacement of the external walls.