Reverse Engineering of Ancient Metals

This book examines archaeometallurgy and the preservation of ancient materials for cultural heritage. Through understanding the internal structures of relevant ancient materials, their chemical composition, resistance, hardness, etc., their conservation can be more effectively addressed. Preserving cultural artifacts, such as those from border sites, funerary contexts (burials), railway lines, ceremonial sites and road infrastructure, is necessary to provide perspective to a culture's trajectory. This book addresses how Reverse Engineering can disseminate knowledge of a culture's heritage by offering technology that can help restore artifacts so they may be displayed and utilized as educational objects.

Discusses how reverse engineering can be used in the preservation of cultural heritage Covers preservation and reconstruction methods for ancient materials Provides a useful resource on archaeometallurgy for everyone from museum curators to field researchers on material science and academic teachers

Autorentext
Dr. PATRICIA SILVANA CARRIZO is a chemical engineer and metallographic analysis specialist. She Is a researcher at the Metallurgy Laboratory at the National Technological University at Mendoza Regional Faculty and also serves as a materials science professor. Her research focus is on industrial failure causes, cavitation issues on hydraulic turbines, and archaeometallurgy. She has presented at numerous international meetings in Peru, Argentina, Chile, and the United States.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Archaeometallurgy.- Chapter 2. Non-ferrous historical metals and alloys: Historical copper and copper alloys.- Chapter 3. Ancient lead, mercury and tin.- Chapter 4. The use and meaning of gold in ancient Peru.- Chapter 5. Ancient ferrous metallurgy, historical and social perspective.- Chapter 6. Application of metalographic techniques to studies in ancient metals.- Chapter 7. Corrosion on ancient metals.- Chapter 8. Coatings for metals protection.- Chapter 9. Conversation-restoration - Reverse Engineering: Technological and theorical dimension.- Chapter 10. Antique metal welding and reparation.- Chapter 11. Advanced analytical techniques applied to reverse engineering studies.- Chapter 12. Case studies on reverse engineering on ancient metals.- Chapter 13. Special case studies on reverse engineering.