In the domain of heritage buildings conservation, interventions must be designed, whenever possible, to maintain existing materials instead of their replacement by new on [...]

Renders and plasters have been continuously used for covering the masonry walls of dwellings even from the Neolithic period. This paper focuses on the analysis and charac [...]

This paper follows up an article Analysis of Calibration Coefficients of Incremental Strain Method Used for Residual Stress Measurement by RingCore Method (Civín, 2010), [...]

Infrared thermography for stone cultural heritage monument mostly focused on the qualitative analysis to judge the location of defect zones up to present. This study carr [...]

The Kodokan, opened in August 1841 as the Mito clan s school. The Kodokan stone monument is made of marble called Kansuiseki. The spirit of Kodokan is curved on the surfa [...]

The article gives the general view to the detection of defects (rather the cracks) of mechanical structures through initializing and receiving so-called Rayleigh waves, w [...]

This study is assessment to the applicability by developing the technique to objectively and effectively monitor the surface condition and physical property change of sto [...]

The presence of some major archaeological sites in Italy and in Europe triggers interesting issues for theoretical reflection and concrete experimentation on the relation [...]

The ring-core method is the semi-destructive experimental method. Correctly determined and properly used calibration or relaxation factors for the residual stress measure [...]

The degree of weathering of rocks, quantitative evaluation and non-destructive detection, is the premise and the requirements of governance stone relics weathering diseas [...]

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This article explains the possibility of use the ultrasonic scanning for detection and control possible defects in the construction material as concrete, sandstone etc. w [...]

The paper reports on the conservation treatment of one of the stone gates of the Royal Palace in Patan (Nepal). The stone mineralogical and petrographic characteristics a [...]

Qian mausoleum is the only tomb that a couple buried together, who both were emperors of Tang dynasty, the only empress in Chinese history, Wu Zetian and her husband Gaoz [...]

Based on comparative investigations after a period of six years, a reduction of the ultrasonic velocity of 9% and 11% for two marble statues could be detected. The invest [...]

In this study ultrasonic computer tomography and sonography are compared in the investigation of a cored marble column. The marble column presents a complex stratigraphy [...]