This Major Qualifying Project reveals the potential asset that modern-day metallurgy is to historical metal conservation. Today many types of research exist to obtain comprehensive information on the composition, properties and other microscopic details of a metal. This technology has yet to be thoroughly applied to historical artifacts. Different microscopy techniques, including Scanning Electron Microscopy, were used on a piece of Renaissance armor from Higgins Armory Museum to discover possible applications of modern metallurgical research to historical metal conservation.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Bartos, Erica Lisa

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04D023M

Advisor

• Apelian, Diran

Year

• 2004

Center

• Stantec-Boston, Massachusetts Project Center - MQP

Sponsor

• Higgins Armory Museum

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright