RADIART - Diagnosis, decontamination and conservation of cultural heritage
Starting date: January 2010
Ending date: December 2012
This project was financed through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia – FCT’s 2008 funding call for Research and Development Projects in all Scientific Domains (PTDC/HIS-HEC/101756/2008).
Principal investigator:
Maria Isabel Garrido Prudêncio (ITN/MCTES)
Principal contractor:
Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN/MCTES)
Researchers from Az (then RTEACJMSS):
Rosário Salema de Carvalho
Susana Varela Flor
Other researchers:
Lurdes Esteves (MNAz)
Summary:
Our cultural heritage often presents problems of degradation, which solution should pass by the use of non-destructive techniques, for the visualization, characterization, diagnosis and conservation. Among the cultural assets, glazed tiles (azulejos), present in monumental Portuguese Heritage, were selected to be studied in detail in this project by an interdisciplinary approach from art-history to materials sciences. This project intends to develop and combine new and existing research techniques involving the use of neutrons and ionizing radiation to to investigate and preserve objects of cultural heritage.
