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Réf.

42779

Type

article

Titre

Mortar mixes with oxblood: historical background, model sample recipes and properties

Langues

English

Auteurs

Zhang, Kun / Rampazzi, Laura / Riccardi, Maria Pia / Sansonetti, Antonio / Grimoldi, Alberto

Date

2018

Pages

p. 19-24

Titre de la revue

Advances in Geosciences

Vol. & n°

v. 45

Mots-clés

building materials / building techniques / microanalysis / mortar / organic materials

Résumé en anglais

In this survey we present studies on mortar mixes added with oxblood, which was a commonly found local waste material, with a wide application and long history of use; a precise recipe of lime–pozzolan mortar with blood ad- dition from a 19th-century Italian manual was chosen, and model samples were prepared accordingly, with the aim of better understanding the chemical, mineralogical and physi- cal characteristics of such compositions, starting with a blank reference specimen. The specimens were analysed by means of scanning electron microscopy, infrared spectroscopy, ther- mal analysis and X-ray diffraction, and the results suggested that amorphous calcium carbonate could be formed in the specimens with oxblood addition. These preliminary results allow a better understanding of historical building practices, measuring effects induced by organic additives on mortar mi- crostructure, as well as an evaluation of new performances obtained in mortar mixes. Moreover, this paper intends to propose a full multi-discipline approach to bridge the his- tory of architecture and building materials to conservation science

URL

https://www.adv-geosci.net/

Document joint

adgeo-45-19-2018.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)