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Study on conservation of mural paintings in Tumulus: Numerical analysis of heat behaviors of stone chamber after excavation

  • Yonghui Li , 1 ,
  • Daisuke Ogura 2 ,
  • Shuichi Hokoi 2 ,
  • Takeshi Ishizaki 3
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  • 1. School of Architecture, Key Laboratory of Architectural and Urban Heritage Conservation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096,China
  • 2. Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
  • 3. Department of Research Support and Promotion, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo 110-8713, Japan

Received date: 22 Jul 2012

Accepted date: 11 Sep 2012

Published date: 05 Dec 2012

Copyright

2014 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

In 1972 mural paintings of Takamatsuzuka tumulus were discovered and have been conserved on site for 35 years, but fungi growth on the mural paintings was not suppressed. In 2007 the stone chamber was dismantled and removed to the facility for conservation and restoration. The purposes of our study are to clarify the main cause of the deterioration and to propose a suitable method to prevent the deterioration for preserving them on site. In this paper, we developed the two-dimensional analysis model by considering the actual change of the surrounding mound because of the excavation in 1972, and perform the analysis of heat behavior of Takamatsuzuka tumulus before and after excavation and compare effects of different sun-shading methods on heat behavior of the stone chamber. The main results are as follows: (1) after the excavation, the inside surface temperature distribution of the stone chamber and the amplitude of indoor temperature become larger. (2) Using the sun-shading panel in the area of excavation is an effective method to reduce the average indoor temperature; however, it has no influence on reducing the temperature distribution of the stone chamber and the temperature difference between the inside wall and indoor.

Cite this article

Yonghui Li , Daisuke Ogura , Shuichi Hokoi , Takeshi Ishizaki . Study on conservation of mural paintings in Tumulus: Numerical analysis of heat behaviors of stone chamber after excavation[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2012 , 1(4) : 375 -379 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2012.09.002

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