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Hydro-mechanical coupling as a deterioration factor for limestone used in historical buildings

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Historical monuments of the Provence region display different sensitivities to spalling decay. Even if some phenomenological scenario have been proposed, the physical processes that govern this kind of damage have not been clearly identified and quantified. The more reliable hypothesis involves the hydro-mechanical behaviour of such limestones triggered by naturally occurring expandable clay minerals (smectite). In order to sense the internal factors involved, a characterization campaign has been carried out. Clay mineral quantification was performed based on a recent methodology coupling transmission electron microscopy, X-ray spectrometry, X-ray diffraction. The relevant mechanical properties were characterised with a particular attention paid on their dependencies on the water content. Then, permeability, capillary pressure, vapour diffusion, sorption isotherm, and hydric dilation of these stones were measured. This set of experimental characteristics was introduced in a numerical model of a block inside a masonry structure to simulate water transport and mechanical behaviour. This coupled numerical modeling was built using the open platform LMGC90.Simple climatic scenarios have been imposed to simulate alternating wetting and drying boundary conditions. Numerical simulations showed that the mechanical stresses generated by hydric dilation or shrinking are not large enough to lead to a direct damage. Nevertheless, in a case study, numerical simulations highlighted some tendencies in agreement with observations.
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hal-01112062 , version 1 (02-02-2015)

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Fabien Cherblanc, Jérémie Berthonneau, Philippe Bromblet, Marine Bagnéris, Frédéric Dubois. Hydro-mechanical coupling as a deterioration factor for limestone used in historical buildings. 2nd French-Italian Meeting on Masonry, Oct 2014, Milan, Italy. ⟨hal-01112062⟩
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