Nd-YAG laser irradiation of pigments and binders in paint layers

Scientific Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Engineering - Civil Engineering, , course: EUROMAT 2003, language: English, abstract: Laser cleaning of polychrome surfaces is currently problematic due to the fact, that laser irradiation can cause damage of the paint layers. A test program was worked out to analyse the chemical and physical background of these typical “pigment blackening effe...