TY - JOUR A1 - Meng, Birgit A1 - Müller, Urs A1 - Garcia, O. A1 - Malaga, Katarina T1 - Performance of a new anti-graffiti agent used for immovable cultural heritage objects N2 - Cultural Heritage objects are in many cases invaluable and irrecoverable, therefore their protection is a prior goal. One threat arises by intentionally defacing such objects with graffiti. One possibility to face the imminent threat is the application of a surface protection in form of anti-graffiti systems (AGS). However, the knowledge about the performance and durability of AGS on substrates used for historical buildings is still fragmented. The goal of the presented study was to investigate the performance of a newly developed agent in comparison to a selection of commercial anti-graffiti agents on different substrates, which were used for historical buildings. Four commercial anti-graffiti agents with different chemical formulations were selected and tested with the new agent on different stone and brick substrates. The results showed clearly that AGS based on dense, water vapour impermeable coatings are not suitable to porous substrates such as sandstone, brick or porous limestone due to their impair of the hygric properties and the visual appearance of a substrate. The new agent could not completely reach the cleaning efficacy of the dense coatings but exhibited a much lower impact on the properties of the substrate and was therefore better compatible to historical surfaces. KW - Graffiti KW - Cultural Heritage KW - Anti-graffiti agent KW - Performance KW - Stone KW - Brick KW - Cleaning efficacy KW - Compatibility PY - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/15583058.2012.747116 SN - 1558-3058 SN - 1558-3066 VL - 8 IS - 6 SP - 820 EP - 834 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - Philadelphia, Pa., USA AN - OPUS4-28605 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Gardei, André A1 - Garcia, O. A1 - Riedl, Martin A1 - Vanhellemond, I. A1 - Suput, J.S. A1 - Santarelli, M.-L. A1 - Rodríguez-Maribona, I. A1 - Müller, Urs ED - Jadwiga W. Lukaszewicz, ED - Piotr Niemcewicz, T1 - Performance and durability of a new antigraffiti system for cultural heritage - the EC project GRAFFITAGE T2 - 11th International Congress on Deterioration and Conservation of Stone CY - Torun, Poland DA - 2008-09-15 KW - Cultural heritage KW - Antigraffiti system KW - Sandstone KW - Limestone KW - Brick KW - Monument KW - Cleaning KW - Historische Baustoffe PY - 2008 SN - 978-83-231-2237-1 VL - II SP - 889 EP - 897 PB - Nicolaus Copernicus University Press CY - Torun, Poland AN - OPUS4-18844 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - García, O. A1 - Rz-Maribona, I. A1 - Gardei, André A1 - Riedl, Martin A1 - Vanhellemont, Y. A1 - Santarelli, M.L. A1 - Strupi Suput, J. T1 - Comparative study of the variation or the hydric properties and aspect of natural stone and brick after the application of 4 types of anti-graffiti N2 - In this article a comparative study of the behaviour of different commercial anti-graffiti on natural stone and brick is presented. 8 different European substrates were selected and 4 commercial anti-graffiti of different chemical nature were applied on these substrates. The variations of their hydric properties and aspect (colour and gloss) with regard to the untreated substrates were later studied in the laboratory. The results obtained permitted to assess the suitability of 4 of the main types of chemical formulations employed to be used as anti-graffiti. This study concludes that the sacrificial anti-graffiti with polymeric paraffins in its composition presents the lowest reductions of the hydric properties of the studied substrates, being also the variations in colour the least perceptible. KW - Graffiti KW - Sandstone KW - Limestone KW - Natural stone KW - Brick KW - Anti-graffiti KW - Porous substrates KW - Surface treatments KW - Anti-graffiti coatings KW - Hydric properties KW - Colour KW - Gloss PY - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3989/mc.2010.45507 SN - 0465-2746 N1 - Sprachen: Spanisch/Englisch - Languages: Spanish/English VL - 60 IS - 297 SP - 1 EP - 14 CY - Madrid AN - OPUS4-21087 LA - mul AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -