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Building Materials Evaluation Handbook
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Building Materials Evaluation Handbook
Wilson, Forrest
This is a reference book. Although it might conceivably be read in the order in which the subjects appear it was designed to be consulted subject to subject as one uses a dictionary or encyclopedia. To facilitate quick identification and location of building materials, characteristics and problems they are first listed in the table of contents, repeated in the chapter headings and listed in the index. In addition to describing how building materials respond to environmental stresses in terms of their mechanical, electrical, chemical and thermal properties, brief references to their normal behavior and a comparison of various material characteristics has been included.
Most of the information gathered and presented here represents the contemporary developments of ancient building lore. The increasing importance of renewal, rehabilitation, retrofit and restoration is placing added importance on material behavior. A separate and distinct field of building science is emerging as increasingly sophisticated instruments are linked to the growing ability and decreasing costs of computer analysis. This book describes one segment of a new building science-that of building diagnosis.Details
Published by: Springer
Publication Date: 2012-03-26
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781468466522
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-6650-8
Dimensions: 254.0cm x178.0cm
Pages: 358.0