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Course Name	Turkish	Geleneksel Yapı Malzemelerininde İzlenen Bozulmalar ve Koruma Yöntemleri
	English	Detererioration and Conservation of Traditional Building Materials
Course Code	RTZ 505E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Nilüfer Yöney
Course Objectives		1. To provide theoretical information on the causes and process of the deterioration of traditional building materials and basic principles on cleaning and conservation of these materials. 2. Scientific, professional, and intellectual context, querying, analyzing and interpreting the capacity to give.
Course Description		Movement of water in porous building materials in liquid and gaseous state; mechanical stresses; crystallization; cycles of water soluble salts and hydrated salts; biodeterioration; traditional binders, mortars, plasters and conservation mortars; stone cleaning, consolidation, glueing, plastic repairs; clay, adobe, bricks; masonry conservation and repair techniques; deterioration and conservation of organic materials, wood, paper and textiles.
Course Outcomes		Graduate students who successfully pass this course gain the following knowledge, skills and proficiencies: i. Developing and intensifying their knowledge ii. Grasping the inter-disciplinary interaction iii. Using expert-level theoretical and practical knowledge iv. Interpreting and forming new types of knowledge v. Solving problems by using research methods vi. Carrying out a specialistic study ix. Assessing their knowledge and skills with a critical view xii. Proficiency in a foreign language – at least European Language Portfolio B2 Level xvi. Using their knowledge in inter-disciplinary studies.
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Textbook		FEILDEN, B. M., (1994), Conservation of Historic Buildings, London: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Other References		ASHURST, J., N. ASHURST, (1988), Practical Building Conservation, London: Gower Technical Press, (5 vols.). ASHURST, J., F. G. DIMES, (1990), Conservation of Building and Decorative Stone, London: Butterworth-Heinemann, (2 vols.). ERSEN, A., (1993), Taş Koruma Kuramı ve Uygulamalarının Evrimi, (yayınlanmamış doçentlik tezi), İstanbul. TORRACA, G., (1982), Mortars, Cements and Grouts Used in the Conservation of Historic Buildings, Rome: ICCROM. TORRACA, G., (1988), Porous Building Materials, Rome: ICCROM.

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