Natural and artificial stone materials with laboratory

Module Laboratory of natural and artificial stone materials

Knowledge and understanding - The educational objectives are: a) to acquire the basic skills to perform mineralogical, petrographic, geochemical and petrophysical analyses of natural and artificial stone materials; b) to know how to interpret analytical data for the use of stone materials in industry and in the field of Cultural Heritage also through practical examples

Applying knowledge and understanding - The student will apply in the laboratory the knowledge acquired on the different analytical methodologies proposed by the professor

Making judgements - the student will develop independent judgment in evaluating the results of the analyses carried out during the laboratory experiments

Communication skills and learning skills - will be the subject of the exam test

exercises with the guide of the teacher in the laboratories of the Department. Students will carry out brief reports on practical activities

• Errors of measurement
• Exercises on the determination of the physical characteristics of stone materials: determination of the resistance to crystallization of salts; water absorption test by capillarity; water absorption test by total immersion; determination of open porosity, Determination of drying index, Determination of apparent and actual specific weight.

ELEMENTI DI PETROGRAFIA APPLICATA Piero Comin-Chiaramonti & Maurizio Mazzucchelli

Le malte antiche e moderne tra tradizione ed innovazione Elena Pecchioni,Fabio Fratini,Emma Cantisani