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Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Building construction & materials > Conservation of buildings & building materials
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.
The papers in this volume provide an introduction to well known and
established system identification methods for structural health
monitoring and to more advanced, state-of-the-art tools, able to
tackle the challenges associated with actual implementation.
Starting with an overview on fundamental methods, introductory
concepts are provided on the general framework of time and
frequency domain, parametric and non-parametric methods,
input-output or output only techniques. Cutting edge tools are
introduced including, nonlinear system identification methods;
Bayesian tools; and advanced modal identification techniques (such
as the Kalman and particle filters, the fast Bayesian FFT method).
Advanced computational tools for uncertainty quantification are
discussed to provide a link between monitoring and structural
integrity assessment. In addition, full scale applications and
field deployments that illustrate the workings and effectiveness of
the introduced monitoring schemes are demonstrated.
This book is a plea for a sympathetic approach to the conservation
and repair of traditional stone buildings. These beautiful
buildings are in danger of disappearing from the landscape because
they are not yet properly understood. Here is a book about saving
them by applying traditional techniques in a sympathetic manner,
using materials and methods that are in harmony with their nature.
Patrick McAfee, a stone-mason, conservation consultant and author
of the bestselling Irish Stone Walls, shows how traditional stone
buildings were originally constructed; he outlines the traditional
techniques, tells how the stone was worked and details the proper
methods of repair and maintenance. As well as dealing with stone,
the book also covers lime mortars and other traditional finishes.
Includes a survey of stone buildings world-wide. Much of the
information is practical, hands-on, and intended for the
enthusiastic householder as well as the more experienced builder,
with step-by-step instructions from an acknowledged expert.
This book highlights new developments in the field of building
pathology and rehabilitation, taking an in-depth look into current
approaches to the surveying of buildings and the study of defect
diagnosis, prognosis and remediation. Including a number of
real-world case studies and a detailed set of references for
further reading, the book will appeal to a wide readership of
scientists, practitioners, students and lecturers.
This book is designed to be an inclusive for the best practice
approach to building maintenance management, where the processes,
procedures and operational systems meet a high standard of
professional and academic competence. It offers a different
perspective on building maintenance management by presenting the
schematic building maintenance value chain model and it's
implementation in Malaysian university buildings. The findings show
an improvement to building performance, lower maintenance cost,
building sustainability and increased maintenance service user
satisfaction. The learning outcomes and summaries provided for each
chapter and the extensive use of tables and figures add to the
readability of the text. Though the book is based on data from
Malaysia, it is useful for a much wider audience, and the informal
writing style makes it an interesting reference source. This book
is valuable for readers who are practitioners, professionals and
for academic institutions that offer courses in the building field,
including architecture, quantity surveying, civil engineering,
building and facility management, property management, real estate.
It will also be of interest to governments and others involved in
the construction industry.
A motivation for structural health monitoring. Structural health
monitoring of aircraft structures. Vibration-based damage diagnosis
and monitoring of external loads.Statistical time series methods
for vibration based structural health monitoring. Fiber optic
sensors. Damage localisation using elastic waves propagation
methods experimental techniques. Application for wind turbine
blades. Experts actively working in structural health monitoring
and control techniques present the current research, areas of
application and tendencies for the future of this technology,
including various design issues involved. Examples using some of
the latest hardware and software tools, experimental data from
small scale laboratory demonstrators and measurements made on real
structures illustrate the book. It will be a reference for
professionals and students in the areas of engineering, applied
natural sciences and engineering management.
This book presents a selection of the best papers from the HEaRT
2015 conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, which provided a
valuable forum for engineers and architects, researchers and
educators to exchange views and findings concerning the
technological history, construction features and seismic behavior
of historical timber-framed walls in the Mediterranean countries.
The topics covered are wide ranging and include historical aspects
and examples of the use of timber-framed construction systems in
response to earthquakes, such as the gaiola system in Portugal and
the Bourbon system in southern Italy; interpretation of the
response of timber-framed walls to seismic actions based on
calculations and experimental tests; assessment of the
effectiveness of repair and strengthening techniques, e.g., using
aramid fiber wires or sheets; and modelling analyses. In addition,
on the basis of case studies, a methodology is presented that is
applicable to diagnosis, strengthening and improvement of seismic
performance and is compatible with modern theoretical principles
and conservation criteria. It is hoped that, by contributing to the
knowledge of this construction technique, the book will help to
promote conservation of this important component of Europe's
architectural heritage.
This book presents a collection of recent research works that
highlight best practice solutions, case studies and practical
advice on the implementation of sustainable construction
techniques. It includes a set of new developments in the field of
building performance simulation, building sustainability
assessment, sustainable management, asset and maintenance
management and service-life prediction. Accordingly, the book will
appeal to a broad readership of professionals, scientists,
students, practitioners, lecturers and other interested parties.
This book presents a collection of recent research works intended
to assist in the effective management of service loss. It develops
and evaluates methodologies for the assessment of defects and
failures, and proposes methodologies for preventing and mitigating
building defects. As such, the book will appeal to a broad
readership of scientists, practitioners, students and lecturers.
Structural irregularities are one of the most frequent causes of
severe damages in buildings, as evidenced by the numerous
earthquakes in recent years. This issue is of particular
importance, since real structures are almost all irregular.
Furthermore, structural irregularities depend on several factors
often very difficult to predict. This book is an essential tool for
understanding the problem of structural irregularities and provides
the most up-to-date review on this topic, covering the aspects of
ground rotations, analysis, design, control and monitoring of
irregular structures. It includes 24 contributions from authors of
13 countries, giving a complete and international view of the
problem.
The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by
investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned.
Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the
major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage. It was
adopted in local and international charters and guidelines on
architectural conservation in Europe, South and East Asia.
Throughout this period, the concept of authenticity was constantly
redefined and transformed to suit new cultural contexts and local
concerns. This volume presents colonial and postcolonial
discourses, opinions, and experiences in the field of architectural
heritage conservation and the use of site-specific practices based
on representative case studies presented by art historians,
architects, anthropologists, and conservationists from Germany,
Nepal, India, China, and Japan. With more than 180 illustrations
and a collection of terminologies in German, English, Sanskrit,
Hindi, Nevari and Nepali, classical Chinese and standard Mandarin,
and Japanese, these cross-cultural investigations document the
processual re-configuration of the notion of authenticity. They
also show that approaches to authenticity can be specified with key
analytical categories from transcultural studies: appropriation,
transformation, and, in some cases, refusal.
Celebrating Toronto's built heritage of row houses, semis, and
cottages and the people who lived in them. Despite their value as
urban property, Toronto's workers' cottages are often characterized
as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization
or even demolition. But for the workers and their families who
originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses
were far from modest. Many had been driven off their ancestral
farms or had left the crowded conditions of tenements in their home
cities abroad. Once in Toronto, many lived in unsanitary conditions
in makeshift shantytowns or cramped shared houses in downtown
neighbourhoods such as The Ward. To then move to a self-contained
cottage or rowhouse was the result of an unimaginably strong hope
for the future and a commitment to family life. Through the stories
of eight families who lived in these "Modest Hopes," authors Don
Loucks and Leslie Valpy bring an important but forgotten part of
the Toronto narrative to life. They illuminate the development of
Toronto's working-class neighbourhoods, such as Leslieville,
Corktown, and others, and explain the designs and architectural
antecedents of these undervalued heritage properties.
The main benefit of the book is that it explores available
methodologies for both conducting in-situ measurements and
adequately exploring the results, based on a case study that
illustrates the benefits and difficulties of concurrent
methodologies. The case study corresponds to a set of 25 social
housing dwellings where an extensive in situ measurement campaign
was conducted. The dwellings are located in the same quarter of a
city. Measurements included indoor temperature and relative
humidity, with continuous log in different rooms of each dwelling,
blower-door tests and complete outdoor conditions provided by a
nearby weather station. The book includes a variety of scientific
and engineering disciplines, such as building physics, probability
and statistics and civil engineering. It presents a synthesis of
the current state of knowledge for benefit of professional
engineers and scientists.
This book discusses the effect of different school building
rehabilitation strategies on the classrooms' indoor environmental
quality (IEQ) and presents a multi-objective methodology for school
building enclosure optimization combining artificial neural
networks and lifecycle costs. The special features of this book are
that it (a) presents the state-of-the-art in school building
rehabilitation, (b) covers the IEQ assessment of several school
buildings, including non-rehabilitated and rehabilitated according
to different strategies; and (c) proposes a multi-objective
optimization procedure. The rehabilitation of a school building
should be regarded as a procedure combining a number of (sometimes
conflicting) variables and objectives, including energy, IEQ and
costs (initial, operational and maintenance), in the search for an
"optimum solution." The main benefit of the book is that it
discusses the main topics related to school building
rehabilitation, presents results of the IEQ assessment on 9 school
buildings and launches a discussion on how the "in-use" performance
of schools is key to understanding how designed performance is
actually experienced. It maps the most commonly used
multi-objective algorithms and artificial neural network
architectures and proposes a methodology for combining these
numerical tools with dynamic building simulations and lifecycle
cost analysis to optimize school building enclosures. This
methodology will be of value to scientists and engineers alike,
while also addressing a variety of related disciplines, such as
civil and mechanical engineering, architecture and mathematics.
This book describes procedures and methodologies used predominantly
to obtain a diagnosis of damaged concrete possibly caused by
Alkali-Aggregate Reaction (AAR). It has two primary objectives,
namely firstly to identify the presence of AAR reaction, and
whether or not the reaction is the primary or contributory cause of
damage in the concrete; and secondly, to establish its intensity
(severity) in various members of a structure. It includes aspects
such as field inspection of the structure, sampling, petrographic
examination of core samples, and supplementary tests and analyses
on cores, such as mechanical tests and chemical analysis.
Evaluation of test data for prognosis, consequences and appraisal
will be more fully set out in AAR-6.2.
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