Wood-damaging fungi in truss structures of baroque churches

0438326 - ÚTAM 2016 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Frankl, Jiří
Wood-damaging fungi in truss structures of baroque churches.
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. Roč. 29, č. 5 (2015), s. 04014138. ISSN 0887-3828. E-ISSN 1943-5509
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GPP105/11/P628; GA MŠMT(CZ) LO1219
Keywords : wood * biological damage * wood-damaging fungi
Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage
Impact factor: 0.893, year: 2015
http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000632

This paper presents the results of a comparative study of biological damage to wooden structural elements of truss structures in a group of typologically similar buildings: small-sized and medium-sized baroque churches in the Czech Republic. Within the study, the data on the genus composition of wood-damaging fungi, locations where they were identified, and their activities are reported. The data were obtained during structural and mycological surveys of the condition of wooden structural elements carried out, in most cases, before planned reconstructions of their roof structures. The data on the genus composition of wood-damaging fungi were obtained either directly in the structures—based on the evaluation of macroscopic indications of biological damage—or in the laboratory by means of cultivation and microscopic analyses of wood samples. The result, in terms of biological damage, is the ascertainment of the genus composition of wood-damaging fungi active at typical high-risk locations of typologically similar truss structures.
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