Experimental and numerical study of gypsum transfer in ceramic brick KU Leuven
Over the last few decades, brick masonry buildings in the UK, The Netherlands and Belgium have started suffering from a new type of salt efflorescence. This new efflorescence consists of sparingly soluble gypsum, and is therefore strongly persistent. Although gypsum efflorescence has already been known for several decades, there are still many open questions regarding the mechanisms behind this phenomenon. Numerical simulation of the ...