Beginning in 2003, staff and students from the University of Vermont have participated with a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory in a research project designed to characterize interactions between chemical contaminants likely to be used in terrorist attacks and building materials commonly found in historic buildings and other high-value facilities.

Research resulted in grouping of materials according to derivation, function, and gross physical and chemical characteristics, characterization of materials types with respect to capillarity and pore structure, a review of existing testing standards, and limited testing of representative substrates with respect to absorption and permeation properties.

 

To find out more about current projects or future field study opportunities, please contact:

Douglas Porter
School of Engineering
University of Vermont
341 Votey Hall
33 Colchester Ave.
Burlington, VT 05405-0156
(802) 656-4027 or
(802) 497-0689
Douglas.Porter@uvm.edu