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Item Number: 128332
Title: Desalination of Historic Buildings, Stone and Wall Paintings
Author: Heritage, Alison ; Adrian Heritage ; Fulvio Zezza (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781904982890
Description: London: Archetype, 2013. 30cm., pbk., 152pp. illus., several in color. Contents: The Desalination project ; Current use of poultices in conservation ; The wall paintings in Tirsted Church - a history of failed salt treatments ; Physical principles affecting the efficiency of salt extraction by poulticing ; Optimising the extraction of soluble salts from porous materials by poultices ; Salt transport in poultice/substrate systems ; Electrokinetic desalination: can it work? ; Practical advice regarding consistency and working properties of poultices ; Desalination of masonry structures: research towards the development of a modular system of poultices ; Salt extraction with cellulose poultices in stone and wall paintings conservation: myths and realities ; Water bath desalination followed by poultice treatment ; Desalination of historic masonry Pre-investigation and after-care ; NDT methodology to assess substrate salt damage and desalination treatment ; Counter indications for poulticing treatments: Schloss Augustusburg Brühl, a case study ; Desalination of a low porosity limestone masonry ; Desalination of historical brick masonry: the case of the Waag building in Amsterdam ; Effectiveness of poultices by perceptive and estimative parameters ; A New Tool for Knowledge Transfer and Research: SalzWiki - a Specialized Wiki with a Repository on " Salt damage in cultural property".
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