Functional and Physical Service Life of Natural Stone Claddings
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 28, Issue 12
Abstract
During their lifecycle, a building and its components should fulfill a set of performance requirements. However, in reality, from the moment in which a building is placed in use, its deterioration process begins. Buildings and especially their façades, more exposed to the external environmental agents, suffer throughout their service life several types of depreciation, becoming obsolete, economically destitute, or physically deteriorated, leading to the end of their service life. This paper intends to establish a correlation between functional criteria (FBSL) and physical degradation () in the definition of service-life prediction models. In this study, these models are applied to 203 natural stone claddings (directly adhered to the substrate), located in the Lisbon area, Portugal. The functionality and degradation condition of the façades analyzed are evaluated through visual inspections. Vulnerability and risks (intrinsic and extrinsic variables) are considered in the evaluation of both methods, as the factors that affect the physical and functional service life of buildings. These models are implemented based on a survey of expert opinion. This study allows establishment of a hierarchical scale concerning the priority of intervention in the stone claddings, based on physical and functional criteria. This information is extremely important in the implementation of maintenance programs in large building stocks.
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Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of research scholarship IV.2 Special Actions of Internationalization, 5th Research Plan, University of Seville, and also the support of CERIS-ICIST from IST, University of Lisbon, and FCT, Foundation for Science and Technology.
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Volume 28 • Issue 12 • December 2016
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Received: Nov 27, 2015
Accepted: Apr 11, 2016
Published online: Jul 7, 2016
Published in print: Dec 1, 2016
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