Salt damage to brick kiln walls in Japan: Spatial and seasonal variation of efflorescence and moisture content

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-176

  Matsukura, Yukinori ^a   Oguchi, Chiaki T ^b   Kuchitsu, Nobuaki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Brick monument; Japan; Moisture content; Salt efflorescence; Salt weathering

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BRICK; FRETTING CORROSION; SALTS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

EQUILIBRIUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SALT DAMAGE;

KILNS;

BRICK; EVAPORITE; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MONUMENT; SALT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; WEATHERING;

EID: 3242815533     PISSN: 14359529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10064-003-0211-8     Document Type: Article

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