Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings

This present book describes the different construction systems and structural materials and elements within the main buildings typologies, and it analyses the particularities of each of them, including, at the end, general aspects concerning laboratory and in-situ testing, numerical modeling, vulnerability assessment and construction maintenance.

List of contents

Introduction and Rehabilitation: Aims & Scopes.- Construction Systems.- Building Materials and Components.- Laboratorial and In-field Tests.- Modeling.- Vulnerability Assessment.- Construction Maintenance.

Summary

This present book describes the different construction systems and structural materials and elements within the main buildings typologies, and it analyses the particularities of each of them, including, at the end, general aspects concerning laboratory and in-situ testing, numerical modeling, vulnerability assessment and construction maintenance.

Product details

• Assisted by: Anibal Costa (Editor), Aníbal Costa (Editor), Joao Miranda Guedes (Editor), João Miranda Guedes (Editor), Joã Miranda Guedes (Editor), João Miranda Guedes (Editor), Humberto Varum (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783662508992
• ISBN: 978-3-662-50899-2
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 579 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 348 p. 224 illus., 147 illus. in color.
• Series: Building Pathology and Rehabilitation; Building Pathology and Rehabilitation
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; B, Materialwissenschaft, Maschinenbau: Festkörpermechanik, engineering, Solid Mechanics, Materials science, Mechanics, Mechanics of solids, Mechanics, Applied, Structural engineering, Structural Materials, Building repair, Building Repair and Maintenance, Buildings—Repair and reconstruction