Effects of Air Pollution on Materials and Cultural Heritage: ICP Materials Celebrates 25 Years of Research
International Journal of Corrosion
2012
Johan Tidblad,
Vladimir Kucera,
Martin Ferm,
Katerina Kreislova,
Stefan Bruggerhoff,
Stefan Doytchinov,
Augusto Screpanti,
Terje Grontoft,
Tim Yates,
Daniel De La Fuente,
Ott Roots,
Tiziana Lombardo,
Stefan Simon,
Markus Faller,
Lech Kwiatkowski,
Joanna Kobus,
Costas Varotsos,
Chris Tzanis,
Linda Krāģe,
Manfred Schreiner,
Michael Melcher,
Ivan Grancharov,
Nadya Karmanova
An overview is given of all results from the International Co-operative Programme on Effects on Materials including Historic
and Cultural Monuments (ICP Materials), which was launched in 1985. Since then, about twenty different materials have been
exposed repeatedly in a network of test sites consisting of more than twenty sites with an extensive environmental characterisation
and more than sixty official reports have been issued. Recent results on trends in corrosion, soiling, and pollution show that
corrosion of carbon steel, zinc, and limestone is today substantially lower than 25 years ago, but while corrosion of carbon steel has
decreased until today, corrosion of zinc and limestone has remained more or less constant since the turn of the century. Unique
data are given on measured HNO3 concentrations from 2002-2003, 2005-2006, and 2008-2009, and the relative average decrease
was about the same from 2002-2003 to 2005-2006 as it was from 2005-2006 to 2008-2009.
Keywords
Air pollution, corrosion, cultural heritage
DOI
10.1155/2012/496321
Hyperlink
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijc/2012/496321/
Tidblad, J., Kucera, V., Ferm, M., Kreislova, K., Bruggerhoff, S., Doytchinov, S., Screpanti, A., Grontoft, T., Yates, T., De La Fuente, D., Roots, O., Lombardo, T., Simon, S., Faller, M., Kwiatkowski, L., Kobus, J., Varotsos, C., Tzanis, C., Krāģe, L., Schreiner, M., Melcher, M., Grancharov, I., Karmanova, N. Effects of Air Pollution on Materials and Cultural Heritage: ICP Materials Celebrates 25 Years of Research. International Journal of Corrosion, 2012, Vol. 2012, No. 1, pp.1-16. ISSN 1687-9325. Available from: doi:10.1155/2012/496321
Publication language
English (en)