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Format: Hardcover
Description
The book starts by setting out the duties of a building pathologist in the context of the modern roofing industry, defining failure and explaining its underlying causes. The main chapters then deal with the main specific types of failure: fire, shrinkage and roofing systems displacement, calendar shrinkage, foam insulation shrinkage and 'stretched' membranes, plasticizer migration, bitumen incompatibility, built-up roofing felt porosity, blistering, thermal insulation instability, foam insulation problems, torch applications, polymer dispersion, asphalt-glass fibre shingle splitting, lack of appropriate venting, problems with cool roofing and problems with organic fibre-portland cement shingles. The book concludes with an outline of the principal rules for long service life roofing. Read more
Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (June 12, 2003)
Language : English
Hardcover : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 041529925X
ISBN-13 : 51
Item Weight : 1.23 pounds
Dimensions : 6.25 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,160,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #54 in Roofing Home Remodeling (Books) #185 in Concrete Materials Engineering #3,186 in Home Design & Construction (Books)
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