2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Basic research concerning the structual analysis of the Waterlogged Wood under a X-ray Computed Tomography

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24800094
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Cultural property science
Research Institution	Kyushu Historical Museum
Principal Investigator	KOBAYASHI Akira 九州歴史資料館, その他部局等, 研究員 (20638457)
Project Period (FY)	2012-08-31 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	X線CTスキャナ / 出土木製品 / 保存処理
Research Abstract	This research aimed at utilizing an X-ray CT scanner and visualizing the state inside wooden goods, and distribution of the medicine in preservation processing by un-destroying for the water-leaching engineering-works products excavated from ruins. About the agent distribution inside wooden goods, it verified for every concentration, impregnation time, and kind of trehalose, and targeted [ the situation or tendency of agent distribution ] the trehalose which has generally spread widely as a preservation processing medicine of wooden goods for every survey item. It checked that trehalose tends to permeate widely even the inside of the shape of a needle leaf, and a massive next door inside wooden goods.