Historic building stones and flooding: Changes of physical properties due to water saturation

Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 452-461

  Siedel, Heiner ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Construction materials; Floods; Germany; Historic sites; Material properties; Material tests; Sandstones; Sensitivity analyses; Stones

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; GERMANY; HISTORIC SITE; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; MATERIAL TESTS; STONES;

BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FLOODS; HISTORIC PRESERVATION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SANDSTONE;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956811422     PISSN: 08873828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000066     Document Type: Article

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