Doug Porter, of the University of Vermont, teamed with Angelyn Bass, of the University of New Mexico, to present their recent work at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.\u00a0 Their project began as a structural monitoring program, in collaboration with MIT, and Angelyn first walked the audience through the computer modeling investigation of a particular section of rock.\u00a0 The modeling was meant to investigate structural stability, collapse scenarios and potential failure points.\u00a0 Doug then discussed the geological formations at the park and the presence of a clay & calcite deposition in combination with biofilm colonization which the team thought could be providing structural stability and weathering resistance to the tuff rock. \u00a0Their site investigation included absorption tests for those areas covered with biogrowth in comparison to recently exposed surfaces.\u00a0 They also looked at permeability and erosion resistance. \u00a0The presentation acknowledges that biogrowth is identified as a deterioration process in most cases, but may also be contributing to the preservation of the substrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Doug Porter, of the University of Vermont, teamed with Angelyn Bass, of the University of New Mexico, to present their recent work at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.\u00a0 Their project began as a structural monitoring program, in collaboration with MIT, and Angelyn first walked the audience through the computer modeling investigation of a particular … Continue reading “AIC’s 40th Annual Meeting, Architecture Session: “Biofilms and Weather Resistance of the Rhyolitic Tuff: Preservation of the Cavates and Petroglyphs at Bandelier National Monument”, May 11, 2012″<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":5342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22,16],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-meeting","category-architecture","category-specialty-sessions","tag-aics-40th-annual-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}