Wood-Damaging Fungi in Truss Structures of Baroque Churches
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 29, Issue 5
Abstract
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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Acknowledgments
This contribution was made with support from GAČR 105/11/P628.
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 29 • Issue 5 • October 2015
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© 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Nov 13, 2013
Accepted: May 15, 2014
Published online: Sep 12, 2014
Discussion open until: Feb 12, 2015
Published in print: Oct 1, 2015
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