Zerstörungsfreie Untersuchungen von Mauerwerk und historischen Putzen

Non destructive investigation of historical plaster and stonework in San Giovanni dei Napoletani Church in Palermo (Italy): evaluation of the exchange between architecture and environment by thermography and radar survey

Historic plasters will be increasingly at risk, due to natural alteration as well as renovation projects when internal and external plaster is refused and refaced. To sensibly conserve as much as possible of the historic substance, the preliminary inquiry is very important to get a profound knowledge of the integrity of materials and their decay, and to decide how to restore them. The application of NDI like infrared thermography (IRT) and radar investigation can be a reasonable support to evaluate the relationship between interior and exterior plaster, the microclimatic exchange in the architecture surfaces and the related alteration of materials. In fact they’re used for the detection of …