The development of a testing method for assessing book joint repair

Paper Conservator: Journal of the Institute of Paper Conservation

Volumn 29, Issue , 2005, Pages 25-37

  Dorning, David ^a  

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EID: 33845864459     PISSN: 03094227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03094227.2005.9638485     Document Type: Article

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5. SC6000, supplied by The Leather Conservation Centre.
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10. TAPPI T511 om-02, 1.
11. A monthly opening is of course very unlikely and consultation of a book often involves multiple openings in a short time period, interspersed with long periods of non-use. However, this estimate of 1200 folds per century was felt to be a broadly realistic average. Gaye Morgan, personal communication, Aug 2005.
12. It is worth noting that this technique can be used as a form of 'phased' repair, allowing boards to be reattached quickly to a book which ideally might benefit from more extensive treatment, but for which board reattachment is a sensible short-term option.
13. It is recognized that the book joint is actually subject to many complex and interrelated stresses, of which tensile stress is only one. Although picking a book up by one board is perhaps not common, this test was developed to model a reproducible and measurable mode of mishandling. It is hoped that other testing modes can be developed in due course.
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19. Peristaltic pumps create a flow by passing rollers in succession along the outside of a flexible tube. They are useful in medicine because only the inside of the tube needs to be sterilised, see LAROUSSE DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Edinburgh: Larousse, 1995).