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Gisela Lameira, Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos, Nuno Valentim and Azar Mohammadpanah
Custom-built solutions for ageing, urban regeneration, energy efficiency, thermal performance, and well-being are contemporary challenges that have prompted considerable research over the past decades. In the construction field, subjects such as energy e...
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Jacinta García-Talegón, Adolfo Carlos Iñigo, Rosa Sepúlveda and Eduardo Azofra
After subjecting Zamora building stones to accelerated ageing tests, colour changes were studied, namely: (a) freezing/thawing and thermal shock (gelifraction and thermoclasty), and (b) combination of freezing/thawing plus thermal shock and salt crystall...
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Natalia Kozhukhova, Marina Kozhukhova, Anastasia Teslya and Ivan Nikulin
Geopolymers represent a new class of inorganic materials that have great potential for practical application due to the properties of used raw materials, as well as the peculiarities of the cementitious matrix structure formed during the geopolymerizatio...
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Alexis Renaud, Victor Pommier, Jérémy Garnier, Simon Frappart, Laure Florimond, Marion Koch, Anne-Marie Grolleau, Céline Puente-Lelièvre and Touzain Sebastien
Three different coated steel systems were aged in natural or artificial seawater, in neutral salt spray (NSS), and using alternate immersion tests in order to evaluate the aggressiveness of the different ageing conditions. Commercial epoxy coatings were ...
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María Teresa Baquero Larriva
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ResumenEste artículo presenta el marco teórico sobre algunos de los problemas de las ciudades del siglo XXI como son el cambio climático, la urbanización y el envejecimiento de la población, con el fin de establecer los antecedentes que guían la investig...
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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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Marco Roveri, Sara Goidanich and Lucia Toniolo
During the last ten years, photocatalytic nanocomposites combining titania nanoparticles with silicon-based matrices have received increasing attention in the stone conservation research field, because they offer an effective multifunctional approach to ...
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Richard Malm, Rikard Hellgren and Jonas Enzell
Dams located in cold areas are subjected to large seasonal temperature variations and many concrete dams have cracked as a result. In the 14th International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) Benchmark Workshop, a case study was presented where contributor...
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Bin Du, Yu Shi and Qian Liu
Insulating oil modified by nanoparticle (often called nanofluids) has recently drawn considerable attention, especially concerning the improvement of electrical breakdown and thermal conductivity of the nanofluids. However, traditional insulating nanoflu...
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Alberto Muscio
Overheating of buildings and urban areas is a more and more severe issue in view of global warming combined with increasing urbanization. The thermal behavior of urban surfaces in the hot seasons is the result of a complex balance of construction and env...
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