Salt weathering of the brick monuments in Ayutthaya, Thailand

Engineering Geology

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 91-99

  Kuchitsu, Nobuaki ^a   Ishizaki, Takeshi ^a   Nishiura, Tadateru ^a  

^a Independent Administrative Institution National Research Institute for Cultural Properties Tokyo   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brick; Conservation; Monuments; Salt weathering; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EFFLORESCENCE; HYDRATION; SALTS; WEATHERING;

SALT WEATHERING;

BRICK;

BUILDING STONE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; HISTORIC BUILDING; SALT; WEATHERING;

THAILAND;

EID: 0034096628     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7952(99)00109-X     Document Type: Article

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