INVESTIGATIONS ON THE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS FROM ROMANIAN MIDDLE AGE MONUMENTS

Abstract

The paper brings information regarding compositionally characteristics of the mortars used at the Targoviste princely court buildings, in three different historical periods, during 200 years, between 1350 – 1584 years. The researches have point out an evolution in time of a used construction techniques, meaning aggregates granularity, accordingly with the mortar porosity reduction. On the other side, the obtained results, on the samples considered by the authors being from the same period had similarly results.