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41
Citations
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5626
National Ranking
601

Overview

Bernard Smith was affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned several fields including Arts and Humanities and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus in subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Conservation, and Archeology.

The main topics covered by their work involved building materials and conservation, conservation techniques and studies, and cultural heritage materials analysis.

Their publication record includes the following paper:

  • Degradação de gnaisse e granito em fachadas de edifícios históricos no centro do Rio de Janeiro, 2020, published in Sistemas & Gestão

Bernard Smith frequently collaborated with several coauthors throughout their career. These included:

  • José Antônio Baptista Neto
  • Christine C. Gaylarde
  • Iwona B. Beech
  • J.J. McAlister

Their work was published primarily in the venue Sistemas & Gestão.

Best Publications

  • Heavy metal concentrations in surface sediments in a nearshore environment, Jurujuba Sound, Southeast Brazil.

    J.A. Baptista Neto;B.J. Smith;J.J. McAllister

  • Surface temperature differences between minerals in crystalline rocks: Implications for granular disaggregation of granites through thermal fatigue

    Miguel Gómez-Heras;Bernard J. Smith;Rafael Fort

  • Mechanisms of loess-sized quartz silt production and their relative effectiveness: laboratory simulations

    Janet Wright;Bernard Smith;Brian Whalley

  • Understanding the decay of stone-built cultural heritage:

    Bernard J. Smith;M. Gomez-Heras;Stephen McCabe

  • Sources of non-glacial loess-size quartz silt and the origins of 'desert loess'

    B.J. Smith;J.S. Wright;W.B. Whalley

  • Algal 'greening' and the conservation of stone heritage structures.

    Nick A. Cutler;Heather A. Viles;Samin Ahmad;Stephen McCabe

  • Origin of desert loess from some experimental observations

    W. B. Whalley;J. R. Marshall;B. J. Smith

  • Impacts of Fire on Stone-Built Heritage

    Miguel Gomez-Heras;Stephen McCabe;Bernard J. Smith;Rafael Fort

  • Contour scaling of a sandstone by salt weathering under simulated hot desert conditions

    B. J. Smith;J. P. McGreevy

  • Effects of direct and indirect heating on the validity of rock weathering simulation studies and durability tests

    P.A. Warke;B.J. Smith

  • The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: The second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork

    Graeme Barker;Annita Antoniadou;Simon Armitage;Ian Brooks

  • Salt-weathering simulations under hot desert conditions: agents of enlightenment or perpetuators of preconceptions?

    Bernard Smith;Patricia Warke;J.P. McGreevy;H.L. Kane

  • Weathering Processes and Forms

    B. J. Smith

  • Condition assessment for building stone conservation: a staging system approach

    Patricia Warke;J.M. Curran;A.V. Turkington;Bernard Smith

  • Processes of Urban Stone Decay

    Bernard Smith;Patricia Warke

  • A commentary on climate change, stone decay dynamics and the 'greening' of natural stone buildings: new perspectives on 'deep wetting'

    Bernard J. Smith;Stephen McCabe;D. McAllister;Catherine Adamson

  • Daytime rock surface temperature variability and its implications for mechanical rock weathering: Tenerife, Canary Islands.

    K.A. Jenkins;B.J. Smith

  • Influence of surface heterogeneities of building granite on its thermal response and its potential for the generation of thermoclasty

    Miguel Gómez-Heras;Miguel Gómez-Heras;Bernard J. Smith;Rafael Fort

  • Thermal response characteristics of stone: Implications for weathering of soiled surfaces in urban environments

    Patricia Warke;Bernard Smith;R. W. Magee

  • Observations on the factors influencing stability of building stones following contour scaling: a case study of oolitic limestones from Budapest, Hungary

    B.J. Smith;A. Török;J.J. McAlister;Y. Megarry

  • Uplift, erosion and stability: perspectives on long-term landscape development

    Bernard J. Smith;W. Brian Whalley;Patricia A. Warke

Frequent Co-Authors

Heather Viles
Heather Viles University of Oxford
Tong Sun
Tong Sun City, University of London
Kenneth T. V. Grattan
Kenneth T. V. Grattan City, University of London
Alastair Ruffell
Alastair Ruffell Queen's University Belfast
Ákos Török
Ákos Török Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Graeme Barker
Graeme Barker University of Cambridge
Kevin White
Kevin White University of Reading
Ian Candy
Ian Candy Royal Holloway University of London
Christine S. Lane
Christine S. Lane University of Cambridge
Peter Brimblecombe
Peter Brimblecombe City University of Hong Kong

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