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Service Life Safety and Reliability of Building Facades
Facades, mounted as non-structural elements on the exterior of buildings, contribute to their aesthetics and technical performance, including protection of the building interior from any exterior aggressive environment. Unfortunately, design and detailing of facades have received much less attention than the building structure itself. Serious incidents of façade failures, including several fatal ones, have occurred all over the world. This paper reports the results of a research program aimed at: (1) examining the performance and reliability of building facades; (2) considering the various safety-related issues associated with risks involved in design, construction, maintenance, repair; and (3) overall performance of these facades over their entire service life, along with the various failure modes. Appropriate strategies are recommended to minimize these risks through improved life-cycle design and construction, and regular inspection and maintenance programs.
Service Life Safety and Reliability of Building Facades
Facades, mounted as non-structural elements on the exterior of buildings, contribute to their aesthetics and technical performance, including protection of the building interior from any exterior aggressive environment. Unfortunately, design and detailing of facades have received much less attention than the building structure itself. Serious incidents of façade failures, including several fatal ones, have occurred all over the world. This paper reports the results of a research program aimed at: (1) examining the performance and reliability of building facades; (2) considering the various safety-related issues associated with risks involved in design, construction, maintenance, repair; and (3) overall performance of these facades over their entire service life, along with the various failure modes. Appropriate strategies are recommended to minimize these risks through improved life-cycle design and construction, and regular inspection and maintenance programs.
Service Life Safety and Reliability of Building Facades
Moghtadernejad, Saviz (author) / Mirza, Saeed (author)
Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty, Modeling, and Analysis (ISUMA) ; 2014 ; Liverpool, UK
Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk ; 116-124
2014-06-27
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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