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Mapping Pattlerns of Cracking and Moisture Migration in Early Brickwork and Replicating Shell Lime Mortar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Gregory Clancey ,
Michael Stetson ,
Robert Henry  and
John Leeke
Gregory Clancey
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology, Cambridge, MA and SPNEA Conservation Center, Waltham, MA
Michael Stetson
Affiliation:
University of New Hampshire, Department of Civil Engineering, Durham, NH
Robert Henry
Affiliation:
University of New Hampshire, Department of Civil Engineering, Durham, NH
John Leeke
Affiliation:
Consultant in Private Practice, Sanford, ME
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Abstract

This paper reports three aspects of an ongoing building archeology project at the MacPheadris-Warner House (ca. 1716–23) in Portsmouth, N.H., U.S.A. One is the use of a portable moisture meter to map rising damp levels and areas of water infiltration through brickwork. The second is the mapping of crack patterns and other defects on exterior elevations. We will also refer to a second site, the Juliette Gordon Low House in Savannah, Georgia, in discussing the problem of crack mapping. The third project is an ongoing attempt to replicate a shell lime mortar.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 352: Symposium – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IV , 1995 , 333
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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