Hygrothermal Risk on Building Heritage A Methodology for a Risk Map /

• Main Authors: Delgado, João M.P.Q (Author), Guimarães, Ana Sofia (Author), Freitas, Vasco Peixoto de (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Environmental management.; Climate change.; Geotechnical engineering.; Building materials.; Building Materials.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings. In a first approach, the total number of potential parameters is effectively reduced and the s...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Hygrothermal Risk
• Numerical Simulation Applied to Drying Out Buildings after a Flood
• Risk Map of Portuguese Building Heritage
• Conclusions and Recommendations.