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Cláudia Ferreira, Ana Silva and Jorge de Brito
The buildings? surroundings? environmental exposure conditions (e.g., orientation, location, altitude, distance from the sea, temperature, precipitation, presence of damp, exposure to prevailing winds, among others) have a considerable influence on the p...
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Clara Pereira, Ana Silva, Cláudia Ferreira, Jorge de Brito, Inês Flores-Colen and José D. Silvestre
In the field of building inspection and diagnosis, uncertainty is common and surveyors are aware of it, although it is not easily measured. This research proposes a model to quantify uncertainty based on the inspection of rendered façades. A Bayesian net...
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Cláudia Ferreira, Joana Barrelas, Ana Silva, Jorge de Brito, Ilídio S. Dias and Inês Flores-Colen
Façades, as the most external building envelope component, are subject to different ex-ternal environmental loads, such as: Temperature, precipitation, damp, and wind. Therefore, the contribution of environmental actions to the occurrence of defects in f...
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Pedro Coelho, Ana Silva and Jorge de Brito
Wood is a natural, sustainable, and renewable material, which has been used as flooring for centuries, but not enough is known about its durability and performance over time when subjected to different degradation agents. This study proposes a methodolog...
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Cláudia Ferreira, Ana Silva, Jorge de Brito, Ilídio S. Dias and Inês Flores-Colen
In condition-based maintenance plans, the schedule of inspections is an important step. Condition-based actions are performed according to prescribed condition criteria (i.e., condition, cost, availability, among other factors), and the main purpose of i...
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Cláudia Ferreira, Ana Silva, Jorge de Brito, Ilídio S. Dias and Inês Flores-Colen
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Ana Rita Santos, Maria Do Rosário Veiga, Luís Matias, António Santos Silva and Jorge De Brito
In order to fully perform their functions and be durable, mortars for renders and plasters are requested to have a set of characteristics that can vary with the type of exposure to external environmental actions and the type of substrate. Generally, they...
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