- Title
- An environmental study on the collapse of a tenement building in HK
- Creator
- Wu, M.; Tang, W. C.; Ke, Y. J.; Luo, C. M.
- Relation
- 2nd Global Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (GCCSE 2013). Applied Materials Research: Volumes 838-841 (Shenzhen, China 28-29 September 2013) p. 2208-2211
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.838-841.2208
- Publisher
- Trans Tech Publications
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- On 29 January 2010, a tragedy took place before the blissful Chinese Lunar New Year. An old tenement building in Ma Tau Wai collapsed in a sudden, causing 2 deaths and 4 injuries. Not only did this raise people's concerns to investigate the reasons the collapse of the tenement building, it also raised their awareness on old tenement buildings as well as protecting them from collapsing. In view of this, this paper investigates on condensation and how it might shorten the service life of that old tenement building.
- Subject
- building collapse; humidity; reinforcement steel bar; rusting; service life
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067995
- Identifier
- uon:18524
- Language
- eng
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