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.
1. European Federation of Corrosion Publications: Series introduction - p. xix 2. Volumes in the EFC Series List - p. xxi 3. 1. Bridging the gap: Corrosion science for heritage contexts - p. 1 4. Section One. Preserving Heritage Metals in Perpetuity: Ethics and constraints - p. S1 5. 1.1. Reflections on patina and surface layer on metals - p. 5 6. 1.2. Love and “ilities”: The main ingredients in successful coatings - p. 11 7. 1.3. Managing the preservation of a large military service collection at the Tank Museum, Bovington, UK: Challenges and collaborative research - p. 21 8. 1.4. Hydrogen reduction of archeological iron: A reappraisal - p. 33 9. 1.5. A monumental mission: Managing treatment lifetimes for industrial-scale marine iron alloy artifacts - p. 53 10. 1.6. SS Great Britain: Treatment and ongoing conservation - p. 75 11. 1.7. Large collections of small metal objects: Managing their preservation via desiccated microclimates - p. 87 12. 1.8. Experiencing heritage objects: Balancing material and functional originality - p. 105 13. Section Two. The value of interdisciplinarity - p. S2 14. 2.1. Interdisciplinarity in conservation education - p. 115 15. 2.2. Reconciling industrial methods with private conservation practice - p. 131 16. 2.3. Transdisciplinary collaboration for the multiscale description of corrosion structures in metallic heritage - p. 147 17. 2.4. Understanding and managing the corrosion of chloride-infested archeological iron: A conservation and corrosion science synergy - p. 165 18. Section Three. Methodologies for corrosion assessment - p. S3 19. 3.1. Cathodic protection of historical metal-hulled shipwrecks: A complementary approach from on-site global measurements to multiscale characterization (corrosion layers, biodiversity, and electrochemical measurements) - p. 197 20. 3.2. Long-term marine corrosion of ferrous objects and shipwrecks and the effects of calcareous deposition - p. 223 21. 3.3. Isotopic labeling to understand the long-term corrosion of iron in atmospheric conditions. The staples of the Mutte tower of the Metz cathedral - p. 237 22. Section Four. Novel challenges and treatments - p. S4 23. 4.1. The development of tailored coatings to protect patinated bronze in outdoor applications - p. 257 24. 4.2. Aluminum and its alloys in cultural heritage: New challenges for conservation - p. 297 25. 4.3. Brass as a gold imitation used in book painting—Influence of a binder on brass corrosion and possible fixatives for gold imitation - p. 343 26. 4.4. Metals in association with organic and inorganic materials: Marine composite artifacts - p. 371 27. 4.5. Dechlorination of iron III phases corrosion layers for the preservation of archeological artifacts in subcritical conditions - p. 421 28. 4.6. Green corrosion mitigation and conservation strategies for metal heritage - p. 445 29. 4.7. Recent research on the use of scanning laser systems for cleaning copper-based artifacts in cultural heritage - p. 467 30. Index - p. 487
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.
1. European Federation of Corrosion Publications: Series introduction - p. xix 2. Volumes in the EFC Series List - p. xxi 3. 1. Bridging the gap: Corrosion science for heritage contexts - p. 1 4. Section One. Preserving Heritage Metals in Perpetuity: Ethics and constraints - p. S1 5. 1.1. Reflections on patina and surface layer on metals - p. 5 6. 1.2. Love and “ilities”: The main ingredients in successful coatings - p. 11 7. 1.3. Managing the preservation of a large military service collection at the Tank Museum, Bovington, UK: Challenges and collaborative research - p. 21 8. 1.4. Hydrogen reduction of archeological iron: A reappraisal - p. 33 9. 1.5. A monumental mission: Managing treatment lifetimes for industrial-scale marine iron alloy artifacts - p. 53 10. 1.6. SS Great Britain: Treatment and ongoing conservation - p. 75 11. 1.7. Large collections of small metal objects: Managing their preservation via desiccated microclimates - p. 87 12. 1.8. Experiencing heritage objects: Balancing material and functional originality - p. 105 13. Section Two. The value of interdisciplinarity - p. S2 14. 2.1. Interdisciplinarity in conservation education - p. 115 15. 2.2. Reconciling industrial methods with private conservation practice - p. 131 16. 2.3. Transdisciplinary collaboration for the multiscale description of corrosion structures in metallic heritage - p. 147 17. 2.4. Understanding and managing the corrosion of chloride-infested archeological iron: A conservation and corrosion science synergy - p. 165 18. Section Three. Methodologies for corrosion assessment - p. S3 19. 3.1. Cathodic protection of historical metal-hulled shipwrecks: A complementary approach from on-site global measurements to multiscale characterization (corrosion layers, biodiversity, and electrochemical measurements) - p. 197 20. 3.2. Long-term marine corrosion of ferrous objects and shipwrecks and the effects of calcareous deposition - p. 223 21. 3.3. Isotopic labeling to understand the long-term corrosion of iron in atmospheric conditions. The staples of the Mutte tower of the Metz cathedral - p. 237 22. Section Four. Novel challenges and treatments - p. S4 23. 4.1. The development of tailored coatings to protect patinated bronze in outdoor applications - p. 257 24. 4.2. Aluminum and its alloys in cultural heritage: New challenges for conservation - p. 297 25. 4.3. Brass as a gold imitation used in book painting—Influence of a binder on brass corrosion and possible fixatives for gold imitation - p. 343 26. 4.4. Metals in association with organic and inorganic materials: Marine composite artifacts - p. 371 27. 4.5. Dechlorination of iron III phases corrosion layers for the preservation of archeological artifacts in subcritical conditions - p. 421 28. 4.6. Green corrosion mitigation and conservation strategies for metal heritage - p. 445 29. 4.7. Recent research on the use of scanning laser systems for cleaning copper-based artifacts in cultural heritage - p. 467 30. Index - p. 487
