%0 Journal Article
%A Pérez-Monserrat, Elena Mercedes
%A Agua Martínez, Fernando
%A Fort González, Rafael
%A Álvarez de Buergo, Mónica
%A Conde Moreno, Juan Félix
%A García Heras, Manuel
%T Effect of manufacturing methods on the decay of ceramic materials: A case study of bricks in modern architecture of Madrid (Spain)
%D 2017
%@ 0169-1317
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18594
%X The appearance and main decay forms in the fair-faced brick façades on the University Campus of Madrid's Faculty of Medicine were taken as a starting point to analyse certain building's construction characteristics and the clay and technology used in brick manufacture. The raw materials consisted in a mix of Miocene marl and red Triassic clays from the Spanish province of Jaén. The exposed face of bricks was characterised by a yellowish tone and smooth, uniform texture that afforded perfect dimensioning and inter-brick alignment. In some bricks this texture was lost, with a concomitant colour change, surface roughness increase and loss of material. Laboratory studies through polarised optical microscope (POM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and field emission scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (FESEM-EDS) revealed similar composition in all the bricks, firing temperatures ranging between 800 and 850 °C and, with the exception of the exposed surface, not particularly careful manufacture.
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