THEORETICAL AND TECHNICAL PRINCIPLES OF STONE CONSERVATION IN HISTORIC MONUMENTS

• Main Author: Başak İPEKOĞLU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pamukkale University 1998-03-01
• Series: Pamukkale University Journal of Engineering Sciences
• Subjects: Tarihi anıtlar, Taşın bozunması, Taşın sağlamlaştırılması, Taşın korunması
• Online Access: http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/pajes/article/view/5000090028
• ISSN: 1300-7009; 2147-5881

The restoration of historic monuments is to preserve and reveal the aesthetic and historic value of them based on scientific principles. For this reason, it is essential to preserve the original materials during the process of restoration. The conservation problems of building materials in the historic monuments are among the subjects which have been investigated with an importance at the international level. It is necessary that, the conservative interventions which will specially be determined for each building, each material and each deterioration process must be determined according to theoretical and technical principles. The stone conservation processes can be provided by the sequence of operations such as diagnosis, cleaning, consolidation and protection. Diagnosis of deterioration is essential before any conservative treatment. In different deterioration cases; cleaning, consolidation and protection can be necessary in the order given or the selection and sequence of them can be determined according to the state of material. In this study, theoretical and technical principles of stone conservation in historic monuments were investigated, keeping in due consideration all previously published suggestions. The present study is an attempt to collect relevant concepts from several domains and expose them systematically.