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Impact of spraying commercial Bentonite Nanoclay on fortification of the mortar as Nano Sprying Technique (NST) in heritages and historical buildings [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSpraying Bentonite NanoClay as an innovative idea satisfied an urgent need for conservation of historical brick constructions. This research explores the application of Nanotechnology as a Nano-Geotechnics (NaG) and Nano Ground Improvement (NGI ...
Saeideh Jalalifar +4 more
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A new multi-analytical procedure for radiocarbon dating of historical mortars [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe overarching challenge of this research is setting up a procedure to select the most appropriate fraction from complex, heterogeneous materials such as historic mortars in case of radiocarbon dating.
Sara Calandra +10 more
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Pozzolanic mortars based on waste building materials for the restoration of historical buildings [PDF]
Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly, 2012 The environmental aspects of waste building materials have been of great interest in recent years. For the sector of building materials this means increased recycling, reduction of energy consumption and natural resources preservation.
Pašalić Snežana +4 more
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Mortar historical research methods – problems of restoration
Budownictwo i Architektura, 2015 Depending on various factors like time, increasing air pollution due to technological improvements of the present era together with insufficiency of inspection leads to the formation of damages on these buildings which are part of our historical heritage.
Beata Klimek
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Advanced Lime Mortars for Historical Architectural Structures
Engineering ProceedingsThe utilization of lime mortar to connect the masonry wall elements of historical architectural structures, to overlap and protect these structures, is an ancient technique that has prevailed until today as a compatible solution based on the principles ...
Theodoros A. Pringopoulos +4 more
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Microscopic methods for analysis of mortars from historical masonry structures [PDF]
Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences, 2021 The process of historical building conservation includes the repair of mortars eroded due to material and environmental factors. Identification of old mortar constituents is necessary to enable duplicating the material.
Zdzisława Owsiak
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Buildings, 2021 Masonry bricks were widely used in construction of the walls in most of Chinese historical buildings. The low strength of lime–clay mortar used in existing historical brick masonry walls has usually led to poor performance such as cracking and collapse ...
Zhouyi Chen +5 more
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Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2023 On the basis of previous research on the preparation of modified shell ash mortar, which can be used in the strengthening of historical masonry buildings, this paper carried out a further experimental study on the performance of this mortar. Workability,
Chen Zhouyi +5 more
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Mineralogical Analysis of Historical Mortars by FTIR [PDF]
Materials, 2018 A method for quantitative mineralogical analysis by ATR-FTIR [1] has been used first time for analysis of historical mortars. Mixtures of different minerals and gypsum were used in order to measure the minimum band intensity that must be considered for calculations and the detection limit.
M. M. Jordán +3 more
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Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2020 One of the main reasons for the lack of seismic capacity of existing historical masonry buildings in China is that the strength of the lime-clay mortar used in these buildings is insufficient.
Zhouyi Chen +5 more
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