IMPROVEMENT ON LOW COST HOUSING THROUGH NON-CONVENTIONAL CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS

SUMMARY Five non-traditional construction systems and their performance under lateral seismic forces are presented. Maximum seismic forces for each system using the NT-E030 RNC Peruvian standards are presented as threshold values of comparison of the performance of each system to recommend the proper reduction factor for each of this system, the one could be used in the future as a complement of NT-E030 RNC standards. Interstory drifts are recommended from the experimental results for two groups of systems: systems with displacements among their components a value of 9/1000 is recommended, and systems based their behavior on shear distortions a drift of 4/1000 is recommended.