TY - JOUR

T1 - Potential impacts of climate change on wood deterioration

AU - Brischke, C.

AU - Rapp, A. O.

PY - 2010/11

Y1 - 2010/11

N2 - Climate changes were discussed in many disciplines during recent years. The discussion mainly focused on three aspects: the significance of climate changes, anthropogenic sources for climate changes and finally potential consequences on ecological and economical patterns. This study concentrates on potential impacts of global warming and corresponding moistening on the durability of wooden building components. From experimental test set-ups in the field, climatic data, wood temperature and wood moisture content were used for mathematic modelling of decay. On that basis, a first attempt is made to quantify the influence of climate changes on wood decay rates for various scenarios. It became obvious that warming and humidification will lead to significantly reduced service lives of wooden building components. The quantity of climate induced changes strongly depends on the geographical position and the present climate. Differences between climatically divergent places are shown exemplarily for the sites Uppsala, Freiburg, Portsmouth, Bordeaux and Zagreb.

AB - Climate changes were discussed in many disciplines during recent years. The discussion mainly focused on three aspects: the significance of climate changes, anthropogenic sources for climate changes and finally potential consequences on ecological and economical patterns. This study concentrates on potential impacts of global warming and corresponding moistening on the durability of wooden building components. From experimental test set-ups in the field, climatic data, wood temperature and wood moisture content were used for mathematic modelling of decay. On that basis, a first attempt is made to quantify the influence of climate changes on wood decay rates for various scenarios. It became obvious that warming and humidification will lead to significantly reduced service lives of wooden building components. The quantity of climate induced changes strongly depends on the geographical position and the present climate. Differences between climatically divergent places are shown exemplarily for the sites Uppsala, Freiburg, Portsmouth, Bordeaux and Zagreb.

KW - Climate scenarios

KW - Decay

KW - Double layer test

KW - Global warming

KW - Material climate

KW - Moisture monitoring

KW - Wood moisture content

KW - Wood temperature

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959599730&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1179/2042645310Y.0000000006

DO - 10.1179/2042645310Y.0000000006

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:79959599730

VL - 1

SP - 85

EP - 92

JO - International Wood Products Journal

JF - International Wood Products Journal

SN - 2042-6445

IS - 2

ER -