Weathering assessment under X-ray tomography of building stones exposed to acid atmospheres at current pollution rate

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 168, Issue , 2018, Pages 187-198

  Gibeaux, Soizic ^a   Vázquez, Patricia ^a   De Kock, Tim ^b   Cnudde, Veerle ^b   Thomachot Schneider, Céline ^a  

^a Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acid atmosphere; Acid rain; Artificial stone; Atmospheric SO2 NOx pollution; Building stones; High resolution X ray computed tomography; Porosity

Indexed keywords

ACID RAIN; AIR POLLUTION; BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; LIME; LIMESTONE; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTION; POROSITY; RAIN; RESTORATION; TESTING; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER POLLUTION; X RAYS;

ARTIFICIAL STONE; ATMOSPHERIC EXPOSURES; BUILDING STONE; CRYSTALLIZATION STAGE; HIGH-RESOLUTION X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; HISTORICAL MONUMENTS; RESTORATION MATERIALS; SALT CRYSTALLIZATION;

WEATHERING;

EID: 85042441517     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.02.120     Document Type: Article

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