Code
3E004013
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Medical imaging and therapy
- Medical imaging and therapy
- Other paramedical sciences
- Medical imaging and therapy
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Engineering and technology
- Construction engineering
- Earthquake engineering
- Geotechnical and environmental engineering
- Water engineering
- Wind engineering
- Multimedia processing
- Ceramic and glass materials
- Materials science and engineering
- Semiconductor materials
- Other materials engineering
- Biological system engineering
- Signal processing
Keywords
porous media
crystallization
pore-scale modeling
natural stone
Project description
This project focuses on the kinetics of in-pore salt and ice crystallization in natural building stones using a combined experimental-modeling approach. In-pore crystallization is studied by time-lapse imaging using X-ray micro-tomography and cryo-scanning electron microscopy to cover the complete pore size range. A pore-scale model is developed describing the physics of crystallization at the pore-scale level.