[Strawbale] permissible load on load-bearing strawbale

[Nikolay Marinov]

Thank you Derek for the useful links.
They are answering lot of questions.

If there is also some information from seismic point of view will be very
helpful. The building site is located in seismically active region- zone of
the 9 by Richter scale.
Here the forces are very specific by themselves with horizontal and
vertical directions with big amplitudes and long duration.

Thank you all guys for your help!
That means a lot for me and our community here in Bulgaria !

Nikolay




On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Derek Stearns Roff <derek at unm.edu> wrote:

>  The testing has shown that plastered strawbales can take tremendous
> loads.  Links or summaries of some of those tests are posted on the
> Ecological Building Network website.  http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org
>  They are trying to build a useful, natural building library.  Check it
> out, and contribute to it.
>
>  The testing is on this page:
> http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org/library/building-materials/fibers/straw/strawbale
>
>  On that page, you will also find a link to free PDF downloads of Bruce
> King (and others) outstanding reference, Design of Strawbale Buildings: The
> State of the Art.  It’s a great book for understanding many aspects of
> building.
>
>  Derek
>
>  On Jul 12, 2014, at 4:50 PM, Nikolay Marinov <nikvesmar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi everyone,
> can I ask does anyone knows what is the allowable load for clay or lime
> plastered Load-bearing Strawbale walls ?
>
>  The project will take place in Bulgaria, near Shabla, still we do not
> have building codes for Load-bearing, so any advice from seismic active
> regions will be very welcome. This building is planed to be experimental
> educational center for sustainable development and for us this is part of a
> great mission and challenge.
>
>  According to the calculations of the engineer the expected load from the
> green roof to the strawbale wall will be 1720 kg/m /kilograms per linear
> meter/ or 16,867 kN/m.
>
>  I am attaching some drawings to make it more clear.
>
> This kind of buildings are still not legal according to our building codes
> /except the one build from Barbara Jons in Hotnica/, so we want to design
> it properly as it should be. We want it to be correct according our own
> personal and community building and moral codes.
> With your help one day it will be all.
>
>  Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>  Best regards
> Nikolay Marinov, architect
>
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