Faculty facilities

Conservation and Restoration Laboratory & Workshop:

The conservation and restoration laboratory of the University of Art was established in 2017 with the aim of optimizing and upgrading laboratory facilities and equipment in the department of Conservation & Restoration of Historical & Cultural Objects. Due to the increase in the number of students in fields related to conservation and restoration and the need to provide research and research facilities for these students, and on the other hand, the lack of specialized laboratories that can meet the specialized needs of students in this field, the foundation of the conservation and restoration laboratory was started. The need of conservation and restoration students to perform machine analysis with special settings, due to the special nature of test samples, the impossibility of sampling works, the very small amount of samples, the inappropriate size of samples, the impossibility of moving many works, and the lack of experts and experienced machine operators for the work with such examples, it often leads to the loss of capital and time and the lack of proper results for researchers in this field. Fortunately, with the improvement of facilities and analysis devices in the conservation and restoration laboratory of the University of Art, conditions have been provided to specialized laboratory services suitable for the field of conservation and restoration to the students of this field and other related and unrelated fields who need analysis with the existing devices. The conservation and restoration laboratory, which is currently the only laboratory of the conservation and restoration faculty, has various laboratory activities, including chemical analysis methods, instrumental analyses, physical and microscopic laboratory activities, as well as various workshop activities, some of which are mentioned below.

Some of the activities of this laboratory are:

  • Research activities in the framework of master's thesis and doctorate with available laboratory equipment
  • Performing more chemical analyzes such as identifying cations and anions in different samples using chemical identifiers, determining the acidity of historical materials, identifying pigments and dyes, etc.
  • Identifying the fibers of historical artifacts such as paper, fabric, wood
  • Aging of laboratory samples in different conditions of temperature, humidity and light
  • Cultivation of bacteria and fungi present in historical works to investigate the effects of various Cultivation environments on them
  • Examining the surfaces of the samples under the loupe and normal and polarized light microscopes and microscopic imaging of the sections with transmission, transmission-reflection and polarizing light microscopes.
  • Determining the amount of moisture inside the wood with a wood moisture meter
  • Determining and recording the amount of UV light, IR, temperature and humidity of the environment with a light meter and hygrometer
  • Determining the specific weight of stones and materials using the immersion method
  • Determining the compressive strength of objects using a compressive resistance device
  • Determining the tensile strength of objects such as paper, glue, fibers and polymer materials with a tensile strength device
  • Preparation of longitudinal and transverse sections and microscopic slides of the samples using slide, lamellar, hot and cold mount and polisher
  • Analysis of samples using a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR)
  • Sample analysis using Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and ATR
  • Analysis of samples using UV-Vis spectrophotometer
  • Analysis of samples using a portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) device

 

Workshops held in this laboratory:

  • Organic materials restoration workshop: (painting restoration workshops, paper and wood restoration, leather and fabric restoration, carpet)
  • Mineral and metal repair workshop: (pottery, tile, stone, glass and metal restoration workshops)

 

Equipment available in this laboratory:

  • Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic (FTIR)
  • Infrared spectroscopy with Attenuated Total Reflectance (FTIR -ATR)
  • X-ray fluorescence portable
  • UV-Vis spectrophotometer
  • 100 kg tensile and compression resistance device (Tensile & Compression Universal)
  • Single axis device (Motorized Unconfined Compression Strength)
  • 10x eye lens magnification device (Polarized Light Microscopy)
  • Suction table device with low pressure control (Suction Table)
  • Ultrasonic cleaner
  • Electric Furnace
  • Germinator
  • Centrifuges
  • pH meter
  • Ultrasonic homogenizer device (Ultrasonic Probe)
  • Monocular and binocular optical microscopes with 4X to 100X magnification
  • Fan oven with programmable temperature from 40 to 300 degrees Celsius
  • Normal loupe with light with 2X magnification
  • Loupe - normal binocular microscope with 40X magnification light
  • Sieve and shaker with different meshes for grain classification
  • Rotary microtome with a metal blade for cross section preparation of samples
  • Single disc polisher for sub-samples to prepare microscopic sections
  • Hot mounting device for molding samples and preparing sections

Library and Documentation Center of the faculty:

This library is a branch of the central Library and Documentation Center. The library was founded in 2007 (1386). The library has one reading room for students and contains 9285 volumes of Persian books and 4160 volumes of English books. The Thesis collection of the library are 1198 titles theses and dissertations at the graduate and postgraduate levels provide services to visitors from Saturdays to Wednesdays (8 am to 15 pm). Students in this library have access to 14 Scientific Databases, E-Journals, E-Books, E-Refrences and Portal of Scientific Journals.