Print Email Facebook Twitter Salt crystallization damage: How realistic are existing ageing tests? Title Salt crystallization damage: How realistic are existing ageing tests? Author Lubelli, B. Van Hees, R.P.J. Nijland, T.G. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Architectural Engineering +Technology Date 2014-05-26 Abstract Salt crystallization is a major cause of damage in porous building materials. Notwithstanding the extensive research in this field, the complexity of the problem has hindered the use of mathematical models for forecasting ageing and damage due to salt crystallization. Nowadays, the durability of materials with respect to salt crystallization is mostly determined by accelerated ageing tests, carried out in laboratory following different test procedures. An effective ageing test should simulate in laboratory, in a reliable way and within a relatively short period of time, the behaviour in practice. The question is whether existing test procedures are able to do so. This paper reports a critical overview of existing procedures and suggests directions for further research. Subject salt crystallizationageing testporous building materialsdamage To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:363f94aa-21c6-40ca-933e-93271b29497b Publisher DCMat Ageing Center ISBN 978-94-6186-314-0 Source AMS 2014: 1st International Conference on Ageing of Materials and Structures, Delft, The Netherlands, 26-28 May 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 The Author(s) Files PDF 321901.pdf 211.17 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:363f94aa-21c6-40ca-933e-93271b29497b/datastream/OBJ/view