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Service Life and Durability of Assemblies

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Methodologies for Service Life Prediction of Buildings

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This chapter intends to establish the first approach to the service life prediction methods applied to façades claddings, with three main objectives: i) perform an extensive survey regarding the concepts related with the service life and durability of building components, the methodologies and standardization related to this matter; ii) define the information collected during the field-work, to assess the physical and visual characterization and quantify the degradation condition of the claddings analysed; iii) the characterization of the samples collected during the fieldwork.

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Silva, A., de Brito, J., Gaspar, P.L. (2016). Service Life and Durability of Assemblies. In: Methodologies for Service Life Prediction of Buildings. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33290-1_2

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