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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 [...]
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Porous ceramic aggregate produced from roof tile waste was used as an internal curing agent. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the porous ceramic aggr [...]
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CaLoSiL E25 is a suspension of nanoparticles of calcium hydroxide in ethanol, which has been developed as a consolidant for lime mortars. As a preliminary study, the beha [...]
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The consolidation process of old renders with loss of cohesion is nowadays performed usually with inorganic compatible products, such as calcium or barium hydroxide or et [...]
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Consolidation is a conservation treatment with good potential to be applied to ancient renders, provided that the alterations in the properties of the original mortars re [...]
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Loss of adhesion is one of the main forms of degradation of old renders; it can cause the separation of different render layers or the separation of the render and substr [...]
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The gallery wall on which the Bas-reliefs are etched of the Bayon temple in Angkor is made of sandstones. The deterioration caused by penetration of rainwater or groundwa [...]
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In the domain of heritage buildings conservation, interventions must be designed, whenever possible, to maintain existing materials instead of their replacement by new on [...]
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In this work nano-titania in anatase form has been added to mortars containing (a): binders of either lime and metakaolin or natural hydraulic lime and, (b): fine aggrega [...]
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Lime water, esters of silicic acid and plastics are common materials used for the conservation of historic mortars. Injection grouts containing cement or hydraulic lime a [...]
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Lime water treatment on a specific lime mortar was tested and evaluated for effectiveness, showing that after a sufficiently high number of applications (160 cycles, 54-8 [...]
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The consolidation and conservation of historic mortars requires materials which are compatible with the components originally used. The application of nano-lime offers su [...]
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Efficient nano materials for consolidation, cleaning and hydrophobization of porous historic materials have been developed in several European and national research proje [...]
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