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Analytical Investigations and Advanced Materials for Damage Diagnosis and Conservation of Monument’s Stucco

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Stone monuments with façade decorations and stuccoes represent an important part of the world’s cultural heritage. Due to human activities or natural weather events, stucco has endured damaging processes that are responsible for their deterioration. Stucco is a porous material that collects dirt and absorbs stains, both indoors and outdoors, which requires frequent cleaning. To preserve them for future generations, it is important to have good evidence for a scientific diagnosis of their deterioration stage (stone material types, surface structure, mineral composition, chemical composition, porosity properties, thermal and photochemical properties, mechanical properties, and their response to freeze-thaw and salt crystallization). Also, new and revolutionary treatment methods with nanomaterials (hydroxyapatite and derivatives, calcium and magnesium hydroxides) are able to offer stucco consolidation which is valuable for different surfaces. All these aspects are discussed in this chapter.

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Acknowledgment

This paper received financial support from MEN-UEFISCDI through the projects PNII 261/2014 and PN 16.31.02.04.04.

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  1. Research center for scientific investigations and conservation/preservation of industrial, cultural and medical heritage – SCI-HERITAG, Bucharest, ICECHIM, Bucharest, Romania

    Rodica-Mariana Ion

  2. Doctoral School of Materials Engineering, Valahia University, Targoviste, Romania

    Rodica-Mariana Ion

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  1. Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas, USA

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  2. Department of Management and Conservation of Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage Objects, University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Ioannis Karapanagiotis

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Ion, RM. (2018). Analytical Investigations and Advanced Materials for Damage Diagnosis and Conservation of Monument’s Stucco. In: Hosseini, M., Karapanagiotis, I. (eds) Advanced Materials for the Conservation of Stone. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72260-3_10

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