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SWBSS 2014

Third International Conference on Salt Weathering of Buildings and Stone Sculptures

First announcement

The first International Conference SWBSS was held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2008 and was followed by SWBSS 2011, organised in Limassol, Cyprus.

Together with Salze im Kulturgut e.V. - Fachhochschule Potsdam, Germany, the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) is pleased to announce that the third conference in the series, SWBSS 2014, will be organised in Brussels, Belgium, on October 14th -16th 2014.

The conference aims to bring together conservators, engineers, architects, students and experienced researchers and to contribute to the promotion of research and development within the field of salt weathering of porous materials.

For more information, please consult the conference website (http://org.kikirpa.be/swbss2014/ ) or download the flyer.

Organizer:

Hilde De Clercq, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels, Belgium

12TH International Conference on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone

The 12th International Conference on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone to be held at Columbia University in the City of New York on the 22-26 October 2012. More on the conference website [1]

The manuscripts of the presentations can be found at http://hpef.us/conferences/stone-conference/manuscripts .

Articles with special reference to salt and salt damage:

• Steiger, Michael ; Heritage, Alison (2012): Modelling the crystallisation behaviour of mixed salt systems: Input data requirements.
• Mélanie Denecker, Ronan Hébert, Ann Bourgès, Beatriz Menendez and Eric Doehne (2012): Mirabilite and heptahydrate characterization from infrared microscopy and thermal data

• Nadine Lindstrom, Nicole Heitmann, Kirsten Linnow and Michael Steiger (2012): Crystallization behavior of NaNO3-Na2SO4 salt mixtures in sandstone and comparison to single crystal behavior

• L. Pel and S. Saidov (2012):Crystallization of sodium sulfate in porous media by drying

• Julie Desarnaud and Noushine Shahidzadeh-Bonn (2012): Study of the kinetics of salt crystallization during rewetting/drying and humidity cycling

• Mara Schiro, Encarnacion Ruiz-Aguido, Fadwa Jroundi, Maria Teresa Gonzalez-Munoz and Carlos Rodriguez-Navarro (2012): Salt-enhanced weathering of ornamental stone,”
• S. Modestou, M. Theodoridou, I. Ioannou and R. Fournari (2012):Micro-destructive mapping of salt crystallization in stone

• Francesco Caruso and Robert Flatt (2012): Measuring crystallization pressure: can Correns’ experiment be repeated,”

• Callum Graham, Martin Lee, Vernon Phoenix, Maureen Young and Craig Kennedy (2012): The effects of road salts on masonry structures in Scotland

• Domna Merahtsaki, Panagiotis Spathis, Vassilios Melfos, Bassile Christaras and Eleni Pavlidou (2012): Influence of the presence of sulfate salts on the liquid transport properties of marbles,”
• Sebastiaan Godts, Hilde De Clercq, Roald Hayen and Judy De Roy (2012):Risk assessment and conservation strategy of a salt laden limestone mausoleum and the surrounding funeral chapel in Boussu, Belgium,”

• Estel Colas, Jean-Didier Mertz, Vincent Barbin, Céline Thomachot-Schneider (2012): Influence of salt solution nature on the drying of clayey sandstone

• Kurt Heinrichs and Rafig Azzam (2012): The use of a wireless sensor network for high-resolution environmental monitoring of stone monuments in context with investigation of salt weathering – exemplified for rock-cut monuments in Petra, Jordan

• Tim De Kock, Jan Dewanckele, Marijn Boone, Wesley De Boever, Laszlo Vincze, Gilles Fronteau, Luc Van Hoorebeke, Patric Jacobs and Veerle Cnudde (2012): Multidisciplinary characterization of gypsum crust on Lede stone (Belgium)
• Davide Gulotta, Margherita Bertoldi, Cristina Tedeschi, Elsa Garavaglia and Lucia Toniolo (2012):Comparison of salt decay susceptibility of NHL repair mortars under different testing conditions

Literature

NEW: Grevel, Klaus-Dieter; Majzla, Juraj ; Benisek, Artur ; Dachs, Edgar ; Steiger, Michael ; Fortes, A. Dominic; Marler, Bernd (2012): Experimentally Determined Standard Thermodynamic Properties of Synthetic MgSO4·4H2O (Starkeyite) and MgSO4·3H2O: A Revised Internally Consistent Thermodynamic Data Set for Magnesium Sulfate Hydrates. Astrobiology, 12 (11), http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2012.0823, DOI: 10.1089/ast.2012.0823.

NEW: Clercq, Hilde; Jovanović, Maja; Linnow, Kirsten; Steiger, Michael (2012): Performance of limestones laden with mixed salt solutions of Na2SO4–NaNO3 and Na2SO4–K2SO4. Environmental Earth Sciences, (), 1-11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-012-2017-0, DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-2017-0.

NEW: Linnow, Kirsten; Steiger, Michael; Lemster, Christine; Clercq, Hilde; Jovanović, Maja (2012): In situ Raman observation of the crystallization in NaNO3–Na2SO4–H2O solution droplets. Environmental Earth Sciences, (), 1-12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12665-012-1997-0, DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1997-0.

Saidow, Tamerlan Adamovich (2012): Sodium sulfate heptahydrate in weathering phenomena of porous materials. phd-trhesis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven,URL: http://www.phys.tue.nl/nfcmr/PhD-Saidov-2012.pdf.

Pel, Leo; Gonçalves, Teresa Diaz (Hrsg.) (2012): Abstracts and programm of the workshop CRYSPOM III, Crystallization in Porous Materials, in Tróia Portugal,4-7 September 2012, URL: http://www.phys.tue.nl/nfcmr/cryspom/cryspommain.html

Kamran, Kashif; Pel, Leo; Sawdy, Alison; Huinink, Henk; Kopinga, Klaas (2012): Desalination of porous building materials by electrokinetics: an NMR study. Materials and Structures, 45 (1), 297-308.

Kamran,Kashif (2012): Electrokinetic desalination of porous building materials. PhD Thesis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Under SWBSS2011 you will find the compilation of the contributions of the international conference SWBSS 2011 - Salt Weathering on Buildings and Stone Sculptures in Limassol, Cyprus. Many of them are available as full text.

Victoria Voronina (2011): Salt extraction by poulticing : an NMR study, PhD-Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, 114 p.

C.M. Grossia, P. Brimblecombea, B. Menéndezb, D. Benaventec, I. Harrisd and M. Déquée (2011): Climatology of salt transitions and implications for stone weathering, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 409, Issue 13, 1 June 2011, Pages 2577-2585, ISSN 0048-9697, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.03.029

Charola, A. Elena, Christopher McNamara, and Robert J. Koestler (editors): Biocolonization of Stone: Control and Preventative Methods, Proceedings from the MCI Workshop Series. Smithsonian Contributions to Museum Conservation, number 2, 116 pages, 87 figures, 5 tables, 2011, URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10088/16617

Michael Steiger, Kirsten Linnow, Dorothee Ehrhardt, Mandy Rohde(2011): Decomposition reactions of magnesium sulfate hydrates and phase equilibria in the MgSO4-H2O and Na+-Mg2+-Cl--SO42--H2O systems with implications for Mars, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 30 March 2011, ISSN 0016-7037, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.03.038.

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