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Structural Condition Assessment

By Robert T. Ratay
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Structural Condition Assessment, edited by Robert T. Ratay, offers a comprehensive resource on evaluating structural integrity across multiple facets including strength, serviceability, restoration, adaptive reuse, code compliance, and vulnerability. The book is organised around the four main stages of structural evaluation, covering topics from understanding structural deterioration and its impacts, legal and business considerations, to survey techniques for various structures and testing methods for key materials such as concrete, steel, masonry, timber, and fabric.
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Ideal for practising structural engineers, engineering students, and professionals engaged in building maintenance, restoration, and adaptive reuse projects seeking an authoritative guide to structural condition assessment.

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A resource on various aspects of structural condition assessment.

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In Structural Condition Assessment, editor-in-chief Robert T. Ratay gathers together the leading people in the field to produce the first unified resource on all aspects of structural condition assessment for strength, serviceability, restoration, adaptive reuse, code compliance, and vulnerability.

Organized by the four main stages of a structural evaluation, this book provides an introduction to structural deterioration and its consequences, the business and legal aspects of conducting an evaluation, initial survey and evaluation techniques for various structures, and specific tests for five of the most common structural materials: concrete, steel, masonry, timber, and fabric.

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The book has been praised for its comprehensive coverage of modern condition assessment topics, making it a concise introduction and guide suitable for both building engineers and students. It is noted as a unique and valuable contribution to engineering literature, particularly useful for those involved in maintenance, renovation, restoration, and adaptive reuse of existing structures. Reviewers commend it as a practical reference essential for successful evaluations in these areas.

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ISBN: 9780471647195

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 February 2005

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Illustration: Photos: 247 B&W, 0 Color; Drawings: 101 B&W, 0 Color; Tables: 58 B&W, 0 Color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 163.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 1098g

Pages: 712

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About the Author

ROBERT T. RATAY, PhD, PE, is a highly regarded consulting structural engineer in private practice and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. He has four decades of structural design, condition assessment, forensic analysis, and teaching experience with prominent engineering firms and universities, and often serves as an expert consultant to engineers, contractors, owners, attorneys, insurance companies, and government agencies. Dr. Ratay has served on and chaired several technical, review, and advisory committees and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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