Salt Crystallization in Porous Media

Hannelore Derluyn is a CNRS Associate Scientist at the Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs (LFCR) in Pau, France. Her research focuses on fluid-solid interactions during crystallization processes in geomaterials.Marc Prat is CNRS Research Director at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France. His research focuses on transport phenomena in porous media.

• Preface xiHannelore DERLUYN and Marc PRATIntroduction xvMarc PRATPart 1. Fundamental Aspects 1Chapter 1. Thermodynamics and Salt Crystallization Kinetics 3Lionel MERCURYChapter 2. Crystallization Pressure 25Noushine SHAHIDZADEHChapter 3. Evaporation, Transport, and Crystallization 45Marc PRATChapter 4. Poromechanics and Confined Crystallization in Porous Media 75Patrick DANGLAChapter 5. Experimental Observations on Salt Crystallization in Geomaterials 99Hannelore DERLUYNPart 2. Illustrations 127Chapter 6. Large-Scale Mineral Precipitation and Its Effects on Infrastructures 129Anna RAMON-TARRAGONA and Eduardo E. ALONSOChapter 7. Salts in Heritage Sites 163Julie DESARNAUDChapter 8. Salt Crystallization in a Changing Environment 189Beatriz MENÉNDEZList of Authors 231Index 233