Historic lime plasters in India- Composition and characterization

Singh, Manager; Kumar, S. Vinodh

ISBN 10: 6202066342 / ISBN 13: 9786202066341

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 26394738366

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Dr. Manager Singh arbeitet derzeit als Professor (Konservierung) im National Museum Institute, New Delhi, Indien. Er ist vom Archaeological Survey of India in den Ruhestand getreten und hat 3 Bücher und etwa 60 Forschungsarbeiten zum kulturellen Erbe veröffentlicht. Dr. S. Vinodh Kumar arbeitet als Asst. Suptdg. Archl. Chemiker im Archaeological Survey of India, Chennai.

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Titel: Historic lime plasters in India- Composition...
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New