Objective As a contribution to the increasing efforts for the conservation of historical monuments and other metallic objects a research programme is proposed aiming at a novel non-destructive in-silu analytical method for control of patina layers as well as of effects and durability of protective organic coatings interacting with the metal, the corrosion layer (patina) and with the environment. The main part of the project will be the development and application of a new non-destructive, in-situ, analytical method on the basis of the photothermal deflection spectroscopy.Results of this method will be calibrated by means of standardized artificially produced patina layers on bronze substrates such as cuprite, antlerite, brochantite and defined mixtures of these compounds and of standardised organic coatings and shall then enable a reliable, easy, fast, and non-destructive control of patina and protective layers on real bronze monuments or other metallic objects exposed to atmosphere. Besides the development of this new technique, the special progress of the proposed programme will be an ample application of various, complementary, standard microrange and microanalytical techniques available at the three coopersting institutes. Such combined techniques have been used rarely up to now for the problems under consideration. The precompetitive equipment and procedures to be developed in the proposed project are expected to find a widespread applicability in the field of protection of metallic objects and cultural monuments. This application will enable a review of previous conservation measures and technologies as well as an assessment of environmental risk factors leading to dangerous surface damages of historical metal monuments. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and filmsnatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsspectroscopy Programme(s) FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 020204 - Technologies to protect and rehabilitate European cultural heritage Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH - Technik und Umwelt EU contribution No data Address 76021 Karlsruhe Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece EU contribution No data Address 54006 Thessaloniki See on map Total cost No data Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst Wien Austria EU contribution No data Address 14/1,Salzgries 1013 Wien See on map Total cost No data
