[Cob] earthquake test video (Ian Marcuse)

[Spencer Alldredge]

These and other tests will go a long way to improving the cob  
building technology to eventually develop widely accepted building  
code standards.

I have heard of other universities doing studies with re-bar. I have  
not been able to find any of their research results.

Has anyone found similar studies on building with cob?

On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:00 PM, coblist-request at deatech.com wrote:

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> From: Ian Marcuse <dtebb at alternatives.com>
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> Dear Cobbers,
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> Finally after many years (we have been rather busy), we have some
> video footage up on our website showing our cob model undergoing
> siesmic testing at the University of British Columbia. It was an
> important test, the only such test done as far as we know on cob
> (though some testing on earthen structures was supposedly done in
> Iran, though we have no confirmation of this).
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> The model was finally inflicted with a 2 g force shake, over 9 on the
> richter and did break apart, though much of the structure was still
> standing, which in a quake of this magnitude is very good as most
> buildings would collapse.
>
> http://www.alternatives.com/cob-building/
> Scroll down to cob siesmic test video
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