TY - BOOK AU - Costa,Aníbal AU - Guedes,João Miranda AU - Varum,Humberto ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings T2 - Building Pathology and Rehabilitation, SN - 9783642396861 AV - TH3301-3411 U1 - 690.24 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer KW - engineering KW - Mechanical engineering KW - Building construction KW - Materials KW - Engineering KW - Building Repair and Maintenance KW - Structural Materials KW - Structural Mechanics N1 - Introduction and Rehabilitation: Aims & Scopes -- Construction Systems -- Building Materials and Components -- Laboratorial and In-field Tests -- Modeling -- Vulnerability Assessment -- Construction Maintenance N2 - The present book describes the different construction systems and structural materials and solutions within the main old buildings typologies, and it analyses the particularities of each of them, including mechanical properties, structural behaviour, typical damage patterns and collapse mechanisms. Common or pioneering intervention measures to repair and/or strengthen some of these structural elements are also reviewed UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39686-1 ER -