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The Getty Conservation Institute, in collaboration with the Museum
of New Mexico State Monuments, conducted a long-term research project
on adobe consolidation at historic Fort Selden. Test walls were
built and treated in a variety of ways, which included drainage,
sheltering, and reburial. New techniques for stabilizing adobe were
investigated. Research identified a multistep process using three
chemical procedures that effectively stabilized sections of the
adobe ruins adjacent to the test-wall area at Fort Selden.
Initial findings were presented and discussed at "Adobe 90,"an
international conference coorganized by the GCI and other organizations
active in the field. The work was part of a long-term, continuous
Institute interest in the preservation of earthen architecture.
(See Project Terra and Seismic Stabilization of Historic Structures).
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Related Scientific Research Abstracts
- 2.3 Evaluation of Cellulose Ethers and Certain Water-Soluble Synthetic Polymers as Coatings for Conservation Application
- 2.6 The Role of Acrylic Polymers in Acrylic/Alkoxysilane Stone Consolidants and a Pilot Study on the Feasibility of Long-Chain Alkyl-Trialkoxysilanes and Mixed Alkoxytrialkoxysilanes as Stone Consolidants
- 2.8 Alkali-Soluble Acrylics in Architectural Conservation: Future Research Directions
- 2.12 Basic Research on the Chemistry and Interaction of Aliphatic Isocyanates with Adobe, Stone, and Terracotta
- 3.1 Assessment of the Biodeterioration Susceptibility of Stone Consolidants
- 3.2 Evaluation In Situ of the State of Deterioration of Monumental Stones by Non-Destructive Sonic Techniques
- 3.3 Control of Coarse Particle Intrusion into Museums and Archaeological Sites
- 3.4 Adobe Preservation-Fort Selden Adobe Test Wall Project
- 3.6 Development and Testing of Modular Lightweight Shelters for Archaeological Sites
- 3.7 The Use of Epoxy Resins for Stone Consolidation
- 3.8 Study for Seismic Strengthening, Conservation, and Restoration of Churches Dating from the Byzantine Period (Ninth to Fourteenth Century) in Macedonia
- 3.9 Getty Seismic Strengthening of Adobe Project (GSAP)
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Related Non-Getty Publications/Sites
- Neville Angew, Richard Coffman, Shin Maekawa, and Jeff Meyer, "Evaluation of the Performance of a Lightweight Modular Site Shelters, Quantitative Meteorological Data and Protective Indicies for 'Hexashelter'," Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, I, (1996): 139-50.
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