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Stone Consolidation. Between Science and Practice

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This chapter deals with basic considerations about stone consolidation and aims to advance thoughts and clues to help professionals bridge the gap between science and practice. Scientific literature and personal experience serve to support and interpret the complex and intricate difficulties raised by practical consolidation needs. The reasons for these difficulties stem from the often-complex patterns of deterioration, the high potential risks of obtaining a very high or very low consolidation action, the uncertainty of medium- and long-term behaviour, and the lack of adequate guidelines for selecting a product and configuring a treatment consolidation solution for the intended objective. The purpose of this chapter is to help professionals to adapt existing knowledge on stone consolidation issues to each specific case and help them to make decisions, keeping in mind that there is no universally applicable product or treatment and that universal recipes should be clearly discarded. It is assumed here that the user works with products available on the market and, therefore, this chapter is not sufficiently detailed and is not intended to serve as a guide for testing or certifying new products or treatment techniques to be introduced to the market.

Keywords

  • Stone consolidation
  • Consolidants
  • Consolidation treatment
  • Effectiveness
  • Compatibility

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Paraloid B72 is a methyl acrylate ethyl methacrylate, from Rohm & Haas.

  2. 2.

    DRI-FILM is a water repellent, methyl trimethoxysilane, from General Electric.

  3. 3.

    Originally a mixture of acetone:1,1,1 trichloroethane (1:1). Another common formula is a mixture of toluene:xylene:acetone (0.7,0.1:0.2).

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Delgado Rodrigues, J. (2022). Stone Consolidation. Between Science and Practice. In: Gherardi, F., Maravelaki, P.N. (eds) Conserving Stone Heritage. Cultural Heritage Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82942-1_4

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