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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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Sara Dias, António Tadeu, João Almeida, Pedro Humbert, Julieta António, Jorge de Brito and Pedro Pinhão
With a circular economy in the spotlight, wood waste has emerged as an important secondary raw material. Bearing this in mind, a comprehensive experimental study was carried out to evaluate the feasibility of using concrete compositions containing wood c...
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Carlos Thomas, Jorge de Brito and Valeria Corinaldesi
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Dany Kassim, Ghandy Lamaa, Rui Vasco Silva and Jorge de Brito
The use of electric arc furnace slag (EAFS) as sole precursor to produce alkali-activated mortars has been experimentally investigated. EAFS, a by-product of the steel recycling industry, is a coarse material with unevenly distributed and size-extensive ...
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Blas Cantero, Miguel Bravo, Jorge de Brito, Isabel Fuencisla Sáez del Bosque and César Medina
Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world; as such, the best way to promote a more sustainable construction industry is to improve the environmental performance of this material. Since cement production is the main source of the...
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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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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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Miguel Bravo, António P. C. Duarte, Jorge de Brito and Luís Evangelista
This works intends to analyze, experimentally and numerically, the bond-slip behavior between steel and concrete made with recycled aggregates (RA) from construction and demolition waste (CDW) from several recycling plants in Portugal. Pull-out tests per...
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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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Cinthia Maia Pederneiras, Rosário Veiga and Jorge de Brito
One of the main functions of renders, together with the overall aesthetic appearance of the building, is the protection of the walls against external aggressive actions, such as water, salts solutions, erosion, and mechanical impacts. However, some anoma...
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Sara Jesus, Cinthia Maia Pederneiras, Catarina Brazão Farinha, Jorge de Brito and Rosário Veiga
The construction sector is responsible for one third of the total wastes produced in the EU. Finding solutions for the reuse or recycling of these wastes is one of the major environmental concerns of modern times. The replacement of sand or cement in spe...
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Cláudia Ferreira, Ana Silva, Jorge de Brito, Ilídio S. Dias and Inês Flores-Colen
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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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Mansour Ghalehnovi, Mehdi Yousefi, Arash Karimipour, Jorge de Brito and Mahdi Norooziyan
The most researches on steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich slabs are to control the cracking of concrete core along with losing weight, and shear connector type. In this study, the behaviour of SCS slabs with bi-directional corrugated-strip shear connect...
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Jorge de Brito, Chi Sun Poon and Baojian Zhan
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Giuliano Tostes Novais,Jorge Luís Silva Brito,Fabio de Oliveira Sanches
A classificação climática é considerada um estudo básico para auxílio no planejamento ambiental e econômico, definindo o clima em diversas regiões. Os modelos de classificação permitem uma compreensão sintética das principais características climáticas d...
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Rawaz Kurda, Jorge De Brito and José D. Silvestre
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Ana Rita Santos, Maria do Rosário Veiga, Luís Matias, António Santos Silva and Jorge de Brito
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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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Manuel Carretero-Ayuso, Alberto Moreno-Cansado, Jorge de Brito
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This paper presents the analysis of 801 damage occurrences in building roofs, which were classified qualitatively as well as quantitatively. They have been correlated according to the type of roof in question, and the most frequent situations have been d...
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