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The historic city of Cuenca is a first-rate architectural complex in terms of its architectural and cultural landscape. The conservation of the existing stone requires comprehensive studies that take into account the petrological and petro-physical source materials (historical quarries) and condition (study of pathologies) of the material used. Porosity and pore-size distribution are important properties as they partially determine weathering. This paper studies the pore system of the historic building stones of Cuenca. These stones have a total porosity of 10–20 % with pore-size intervals of 0.1–10 μm. These characteristics make them sensitive to processes such as salt and ice crystallization pressures. New introduced stones (e.g., Vara del Rey stone) with a different porosity and pore-size intervals may cause incompatibility problems in the short and middle term.
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This study is part of the PhD Thesis of D. Enrique Torrero. The authors wish to thank D. Elias Alonso for his comments and help with field work.
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Torrero, E., Sanz, D., Navarro, V. (2014). Porosity and Pore Size Distribution of the Dimension Stone in the Historic City of Cuenca. In: Llinares-Millán, C., et al. Construction and Building Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7790-3_63
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