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Potential Damage to Modern Building Materials from 21st Century Air Pollution

The evolution of damage to building materials has been estimated for the 21 century, with a particular focus on aluminum, zinc, copper, plastic, paint, and rubber in urban areas. We set idealized air pollution and climates to represent London and Prague across the period 1950–2100. Environmental par...

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Autores principales: Brimblecombe, Peter, Grossi, Carlota M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20098955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2010.17
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description The evolution of damage to building materials has been estimated for the 21 century, with a particular focus on aluminum, zinc, copper, plastic, paint, and rubber in urban areas. We set idealized air pollution and climates to represent London and Prague across the period 1950–2100. Environmental parameters were used to estimate future recession, corrosion, and loss of properties through published damage or dose-response functions. The 21 century seems to provide a less aggressive environment for stone and metals than recent times. Improvements in air quality are the most relevant drivers for this amelioration. Changes in climate predicted for the 21 century do not alter this picture. On the other hand, polymeric materials, plastic, paint, and rubber might show slightly increased rates of degradation, to some extent the result of enhanced oxidant concentrations, but also the possibility of contributions from more solar radiation.
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spelling pubmed-57639012018-06-03 Potential Damage to Modern Building Materials from 21st Century Air Pollution Brimblecombe, Peter Grossi, Carlota M. ScientificWorldJournal Research Article The evolution of damage to building materials has been estimated for the 21 century, with a particular focus on aluminum, zinc, copper, plastic, paint, and rubber in urban areas. We set idealized air pollution and climates to represent London and Prague across the period 1950–2100. Environmental parameters were used to estimate future recession, corrosion, and loss of properties through published damage or dose-response functions. The 21 century seems to provide a less aggressive environment for stone and metals than recent times. Improvements in air quality are the most relevant drivers for this amelioration. Changes in climate predicted for the 21 century do not alter this picture. On the other hand, polymeric materials, plastic, paint, and rubber might show slightly increased rates of degradation, to some extent the result of enhanced oxidant concentrations, but also the possibility of contributions from more solar radiation. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2010-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5763901/ /pubmed/20098955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2010.17 Text en Copyright © 2010 Peter Brimblecombe and Carlota M. Grossi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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