Bridging the Gap
Corrosion Science For Heritage Contexts
Published on 25. July 2025
400 pages
978-0-443-18691-2 (ISBN)
Description
Conservation practitioners seek predictable and successful procedures and treatments for controlling corrosion of heritage metals that conform to aesthetic and ethical boundaries set by prevailing cultural, historical, and archaeological contexts. Understanding metallic corrosion and its prevention is informed by scientific research provided by heritage scientists, conservators themselves and, to a lesser extent, corrosion scientists who may be in academia or industry.Bridging the Gap: Corrosion Science For Heritage Contexts explores the decision-making processes for preserving heritage metals and examines the collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships that underpin them.Through themed chapters, the book is designed to develop and strengthen collaboration between these three groups of professionals, creating a synergy that benefits research and practice for the preservation of heritage metals. It builds an overview of metals conservation across a broad range of heritage contexts, from indoor museum displays to fixed outdoor structures and moving objects. Researchers and practitioners provide critical insights into corrosion problems within heritage, current corrosion mitigation procedures and the evidence supporting best practice guidance.The book will be a valuable reference resource for corrosion and corrosion protection scientists; heritage preservation scientists; conservation practitioners and students studying preservation of cultural objects.
- Provides a detailed understanding of recent advancements and the benefits of a multidisciplinary approach to addressing future challenges
- Presents a contextual understanding of the corrosion of a range of heritage metals in different environments
- Discusses novel characterization techniques as applied to heritage science
- Overviews innovative protection treatments in use and under development
- Includes extensive case studies from highly qualified experts who deal with numerous issues on the conservation of metal artifacts
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Delphine Neff | Sabrina Grassini | David Watkinson
Bridging the Gap: Volume 73
Corrosion Science For Heritage Contexts
Book
08/2025
Woodhead Publishing
€253.79
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Content
1. IntroductionPART ONE: Preserving Heritage Materials in Perpetuity: Ethics and Constraints1.1. Reflections on Patina and Surface Layers on Metals1.2. Love: The main ingredient in successful coatings1.3. Managing the Preservation of a Large Military Service Collection at the Tank Museum, Bovington UK: Challenges and collaborative research1.4. Hydrogen Reduction of Archaeological Iron: A reappraisal1.5. A Monumental Mission: Managing Treatment Lifetimes for Industrial-Scale Marine Iron Alloy Artifacts1.6. SS Great Britain1.7. Large Collections of Small Metal Objects: Managing their preservation via desiccated microclimates1.8. Experiencing Heritage Objects: Balancing material and functional originality PART TWO: The Value of Interdisciplinarity2.1. Interdisciplinarity in Conservation Education2.2. Reconciling Industrial Methods with Private Conservation Practice2.3. Transdisciplinary Collaboration for the Multi-Scale Description of Corrosion Structures in Metallic Heritage2.4. Understanding and Manging the Corrosion of Chloride Infested Archaeological Iron: A conservation and corrosion science synergy PART THREE: Methodologies for Corrosion Assessment3.1. Cathodic Protection of Historical Metal-Hulled Shipwrecks: Complementary approach from on-site global measurements to multiscale characterization3.2. Long-Term Marine Corrosion of Ferrous Objects and Shipwrecks and the Effects of Calcareous Deposition3.3. Isotopic Labelling to Understand the Long-Term Corrosion of Iron in Atmospheric Conditions: The case of the staples of the Mutte tower of the Metz cathedral PART FOUR: Novel Challenges and Treatments4.1. The Development of Tailored Coatings to Protect Patinated Bronze in Outdoor Applications4.2. Aluminium and its Alloys in Cultural Heritage: New challenges for conservation4.3. Brass as a Gold Imitation Used in Book Painting: Influence of a binder on brass corrosion and possible fixatives for gold imitation4.4. Metals in Association with Organic and Inorganic Materials: Marine composite artefacts4.5. Dechlorination of Iron III Phases in Corrosion Layers for the Preservation of Archaeological Artefacts4.6. Green Corrosion Mitigation and Conservation Strategies for Metal Heritage4.7. Recent Research on the Use of Scanning Laser Systems for Cleaning Cultural Heritage Cu-Based Artifacts
