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Restoration of cultural heritage: evaluation of the compatibility between metals and sealing products

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Abstract

When restoring historical monuments, it is often verified that reinforcements, mostly made of ferrous alloys, are in quite a bad state and must be partially or totally replaced to prevent further degradation or accidents. Modern alloys such as stainless steels are increasingly used for such purpose, which raises the open question concerning their compatibility with the new types of sealing products available on the market. Even though it is not possible to use accelerated tests to give a livelong guarantee of adequacy of materials combination, electrochemical tests of metals in an aqueous extract of the sealing products could be used as screening to rapidly identify situations that would conduce to the premature corrosion of the metal.

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  1. Cercle des Partenaires du Patrimoine, Champs sur Marne, France

    Virginia Costa

  2. Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques, Champs sur Marne, France

    Annick Texier

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Costa, V., Texier, A. Restoration of cultural heritage: evaluation of the compatibility between metals and sealing products. J Solid State Electrochem 14, 403–405 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-009-0891-5

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