Abstract
The development of biological stains has a great influence on the durability of building materials. For common concrete structures, the main and most rapid disorder linked with this development is aesthetic. In recent years, architects have been increasingly using formwork surfaces for external walls, so the search for aesthetic quality and durability has become as important as the search for mechanical quality and durability. Hence, there is a demand from industry for the qualification of concrete wall surface behaviour toward biological growths. This paper aims to itemize the various biological stains affecting concrete and to put forward two accelerated tests for the growth of algae, the organisms responsible for the first visible stains. These tests enable a wall surface to be qualified with respect to biological stains.
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The authors are grateful to ATILH, and particularly Mr. Baron, for financial assistance. They thank Mr. Haehnel, and Mr. Boulon (ITECH) for their technical assistance.
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Escadeillas, G., Bertron, A., Blanc, P. et al. Accelerated testing of biological stain growth on external concrete walls. Part 1: Development of the growth tests. Mater Struct 40, 1061–1071 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-006-9205-x
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