Historic lime plasters in India- Composition and characterization - Couverture souple

Singh, Manager; Kumar, S. Vinodh

 
9786202066341: Historic lime plasters in India- Composition and characterization
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 6202066342 ISBN 13 : 9786202066341
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

India has numerous monuments designed, carved and painted with splendid lime plaster works. These plasters, mostly made from locally available ingredients have stood destructive action of the nature to a large extent with a few exceptions on account of its unique characteristics. The inadequate interventions in our ancient plaster works had extensively caused disappearance of original lime render besides raising anomalies and functional incompatibility. The conservation of these plasters for posterity and scientific methodology to understand methods and techniques of preparation of these novel materials are now attracting archaeologist and conservation scientists in the Indian sub-continent. This book deals with the scientific characterization of variety of Indian lime plaster works through XRF, XRD, SEM, FTIR, Raman Spectroscopy, Thermal analysis, etc. This book documents the chemical, mineralogical, Geo-chemical, statigraphy and textural characterization of ancient lime plasters of Ellora caves, Alampur group of temples, Bibi-ka-Maqbara, Ballaleshwar temple, Fariah Bagh, Hampi, Daulatabad Fort, Bidar Fort, Golkonda Fort and Charminar, etc.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

India has numerous monuments designed, carved and painted with splendid lime plaster works. These plasters, mostly made from locally available ingredients have stood destructive action of the nature to a large extent with a few exceptions on account of its unique characteristics. The inadequate interventions in our ancient plaster works had extensively caused disappearance of original lime render besides raising anomalies and functional incompatibility. The conservation of these plasters for posterity and scientific methodology to understand methods and techniques of preparation of these novel materials are now attracting archaeologist and conservation scientists in the Indian sub-continent. This book deals with the scientific characterization of variety of Indian lime plaster works through XRF, XRD, SEM, FTIR, Raman Spectroscopy, Thermal analysis, etc. This book documents the chemical, mineralogical, Geo-chemical, statigraphy and textural characterization of ancient lime plasters of Ellora caves, Alampur group of temples, Bibi-ka-Maqbara, Ballaleshwar temple, Fariah Bagh, Hampi, Daulatabad Fort, Bidar Fort, Golkonda Fort and Charminar, etc.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Manager Singh is presently working as Professor (Conservation) in National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India. He retired from Archaeological Survey of India and published 3 nos. of books and about 60 research papers on cultural heritage. Dr. S.Vinodh Kumar is working as Asst. Suptdg. Archl. Chemist in Archaeological Survey of India, Chennai.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
6202066342
ISBN 13 
9786202066341
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
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