The conservation of artwork is an important aspect of preserving human culture and artistic
expression. Both knowledge and technology can be essential in artwork conservation …

This review concerns the challenges and perspectives of on-site non-invasive
measurements applied to wall mosaics. Wall mosaics, during the centuries, decorated …

In this chapter the main methods applied to the characterization of stone deterioration on
buildings and art objects are presented. The text begins with the classification of weathering …

There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and aesthetics of optical media:
namely, the field of the three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image. It has been widely used in …

Holographic and thermographic techniques have been recently applied in artwork
diagnostics for the quantitative evaluation of defect size and depth in laboratory samples of …

In the artwork conservation field, non contact diagnostic and imaging methods are widely
used and most welcomed. In this work a new imaging tool, called Thermal Quasi …

In this research work, experimental procedures by means of Transient Thermography and
Holographic Interferometry were performed in order to detect subsurface tesserae areas of …

In this study, experimental data from two artwork specimens was acquired and processed by
pulsed phase thermography (PPT) and holographic interferometry. The first specimen was a …

The durability of an exterior finish is affected by the characteristics of the wood. Satisfactory
finish life is usually more difficult to achieve on woods of higher density. All wood shrinks as …

Damage following static indentation of jute/hemp (50 wt.% total fiber content) hybrid
laminates was detected by a number of nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques, in …