Development of restoration mortars and artificial stones for use in restoring cultural heritage sites made from volcanic tuffs

• Published in: Environmental earth sciences Vol. 81; no. 20; p. 497
• Main Authors: Menningen, Johanna, Klein, Calvin, Pötzl, Christopher, Gross, Christian J., Siegesmund, Siegfried
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.10.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: aesthetics; Armenia; Artificial stone; Biogeosciences; Building Stones and Geomaterials through History and Environments – from Quarry to Heritage. Insights of the Conditioning Factors; Buildings; cement; Concrete; Construction materials; Cultural heritage; Cultural resources; durability; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Environmental Science and Engineering; Evaluation; Exploitation; Geochemistry; Geology; Historic sites; Hydrology/Water Resources; Mexico; Mortars (material); Natural resources; Natural stone; Properties; Quarrying; Restoration; Rock; Rocks; Stone; Terrestrial Pollution; Thematic Issue; Tuff; wastes; Water transport; Weathering; Armenia; Mexico; Source rocks from Mexico and Armenia; Technical properties; Color adaptation; Artificial replacement stones; Development of a restoration stone mortar

Many historically significant buildings and cultural heritage sites are made of volcanic tuffs. These sites are subject to a progressive weathering and are partly in ruinous conditions. Preparing a suitable stone replacement mortar for repair work or even whole replacement stones for these rocks is...