A review on the mechanical properties of aged wood and salvaged timber

A Cavalli, D Cibecchini, M Togni, HS Sousa - Construction and Building …, 2016 - Elsevier
The effect of time on the mechanical properties of wood is of interest for structural engineers,
wood technologists and conservators; for the old timber structure assessment, for the …

Assessment of heritage timber structures: Review of standards, guidelines and procedures

M Riggio, D D'ayala, MA Parisi, C Tardini - Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the official documentation (standards, guidelines and procedures)
available for the assessment of heritage timber structures. The subsequent discussion does …

In-situ assessment of timber structural members: Combining information from visual strength grading and NDT/SDT methods–A review

A Feio, JS Machado - Construction and Building Materials, 2015 - Elsevier
The non-destructive assessment of mechanical properties of timber members in situ is
currently done by applying visual strength grading standards (VSG) which were developed …

[HTML][HTML] In situ assessment of the timber structure of an 18th century building in Madrid, Spain

F Arriaga, C Osuna-Sequera, M Esteban… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The timber structural members of a seven-story building from the end of the 18th century
were evaluated following a procedure based on previous research works. The structure …

Evaluation of statistical parameters of concrete strength from secondary experimental test data

P Croce, F Marsili, F Klawonn, P Formichi… - Construction and Building …, 2018 - Elsevier
The results of material acceptance tests or in-situ tests are a valuable source of information
for reliability assessment of existing structures. Huge secondary databases of test results are …

Combination of non-destructive tests for assessing decay in existing timber elements

T Yu, HS Sousa, JM Branco - Nondestructive Testing and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Existing timber structures often present elements with different levels of decay and the
choice to maintain them comes from the structural assessment, made by a civil engineer on …

Combination of expert decision and learned based Bayesian Networks for multi-scale mechanical analysis of timber elements

HS Sousa, F Prieto-Castrillo, JC Matos… - Expert Systems with …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The use of Bayesian Networks allows to organize and correlate information
gathered from different sources and its optimization may incorporate restrictions adjusting …

Failure analysis of church towers and roof structures due to high wind velocities

M Mosoarca, AI Keller, C Bocan - Engineering failure analysis, 2019 - Elsevier
It is generally acknowledged that heritage buildings were built by taking their environment
into consideration, and therefore they have a high resilience towards various climatic factors …

Historic timber roof structure vulnerability assessment procedures–Critical analysis and comparison

AI Keller, M Mosoarca - Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2024 - Elsevier
Historic timber roof structures in Europe are examples of some of the continent's most
intricate and ingenious structural solutions. They were built in close connection with their …

Reliability-based design of interventions in deteriorated timber structures

HS Sousa, LC Neves - International Journal of Architectural …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
When accommodating new uses or mitigating the consequences of deterioration, the
strength increase of existing structures is significantly more onerous than a similar increase …