The renovation and rehabilitation of existing constructions together with the preservation and restoration of the architectural heritage are, in fact, activities which deserve particular attention by people involved in both design and constructional process. This wide subject has been treated in the book by identifying the main aspects and analysing them from the general design criteria to the execution rules in order to completely cover the concerned field. This approach is, therefore, characterised by an unitary feature which is difficult to find in other books. In particular many practical...

The present book has a scope to discuss in depth all the aspects of the notion of semi-rigidity in steel structural connections that has been introduced into the structural steelwork praxis by Eurocode 3: "Design of Steel Structures, from the fundamental notions till the applications of this theory. The book presents a comprehensive survey of all the relevant topics: the definition of semi-rigid steel structural connections, their classification and their influence to the structural response of sway and non-sway steel frames. The sources of connection compliance, ductility and the application...

This volume strives to give complete information about the main aspect of the stability behaviour of steel structures and their members. In following this objective, the volume presents a complete scientific background (profiting from the fact that the authors of the individual parts of the publication have personally been very active in the corresponding field of research for an extended period of time now), but also establishes recommendations, procedures and formulae for practical design. The significance of the volume may be seen in its challenging current concepts of stability analysis,...