Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 395, Issue 7, Pages 2119-2129Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-009-3153-6
Keywords
Bricks; Accelerated ageing tests; Raman spectroscopy; Micro-ED-X-ray fluorescence; Ion chromatography
Funding
- Spanish MEC (MICINN) [CTQ2005-09267-C02-01/PPQ]
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Bricks, together with stones and mortars, can be considered as one of the most important building materials that constitute our built heritage. Numerous factors which cause several decaying pathologies in bricks can be listed, but it should be emphasised that the most severe and damaging one is the wet and dry deposition of both combustion and greenhouse gases (CO2, SOx and NOx mainly). For instance, after the impact of CO2 and SOx, the decayed products promoted in bricks are carbonates and sulphates. Once identified in all these kinds of salts in real samples, it is necessary to make sure that the aggressive atmospheric conditions are sufficient to promote the formation of these salts. Therefore, accelerated exposure test are a good alternative in order to simulate the formation of these decayed compounds and to predict the reactions that promote the decaying mechanism. In this work, brick samples manufactured at different firing temperatures following ancient methods were subjected to humidity/dryness, freeze/thaw, CO2 and SO2 (KESTERNICH DIN 50018) accelerated ageing tests followed by a Raman spectroscopy screening in order to verify the formation of sulphate and carbonate salts in bricks on accelerated conditions, simulating the damage caused by a polluted atmosphere throughout many years of exposure.
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