[Cob] Fwd: Are you willing

[Barb Troje]

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From: Barb Troje <btroje at gmail.com>
Date: May 18, 2007 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Cob] Are you willing
To: dealy at deatech.com

just want to announce I am working with Bill Druc, an engineer in Santa Fe
NM. I was anticipating having to do infill walls, but he is going to stamp
plans for cob as the support for the roof.

NM Codes for earthen structures do require a bond beam on top of the cob


 On 5/17/07, Shannon Dealy <dealy at deatech.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2007, Shody Ryon wrote:
>
> > Thanks Shannon,
> > I didn't know that about their code. Is there an
> > engineer in New Zealand (or anywhere, for that matter)
> > that has worked up some numbers that could show that
> > strength of cob, at least in the cases that s/he has
> > done the numbers for?
> > Shody
>
> I haven't seen any structural numbers for cob (and there aren't any in
> the NZ code).  The immediate reaction of most engineers who look at it
> seems to be to encase it in steel and cement or other reinforcement.  This
>
> is in my view incompetent engineering, first you determine what, if
> anything is needed, then you decide how to deal with it.  Of course this
> does require materials testing and probably finite element analysis, both
> of which take time and money, so from a strictly dollars perspective, the
> cement and steel approach is probably going be cheaper until we have a
> significant quantity of test data on cob.
>
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Barbara Troje MD
AOBA Education Committee
Nizhoni ALpacas , Las Vegas, NM

-- 
Barbara Troje MD
AOBA Education Committee
Nizhoni ALpacas , Las Vegas, NM