Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings
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, typi
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Aníbal Costa João Miranda Guedes Humberto Varum Editors
Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings
Building Pathology and Rehabilitation Volume 2
Series Editors Vasco Peixoto de Freitas Aníbal Costa J. M. P. Q. Delgado
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/10019
Aníbal Costa · João Miranda Guedes Humberto Varum Editors
Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings
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Editors Aníbal Costa Humberto Varum Department of Civil Engineering University of Aveiro Aveiro Portugal
João Miranda Guedes Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering of Porto University Porto Portugal
ISSN 2194-9832 ISSN 2194-9840 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-39685-4 ISBN 978-3-642-39686-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-39686-1 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Preface
During the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, the centers of many urban areas suffered important transformations that were responsible for the demolition of a considerable number of constructions, giving place to wider open areas and avenues. Also, new agglomerates of buildings were created outside the city centers, l
