Philip Bester van Niekerk
Research interests
- Wood Durability
- Service life modelling of timber
- Performance-based design with timber
- Hazard mapping
- Carbon storage quantification
Projects
- WoodLCC - Enabling robust and precise Life-Cycle-Costing (LCC) based on input from novel models for detailed service life performance specification for wooden components and buildings
- ClickDesign - Delivering fingertip knowledge to enable service life performance specification of wood
Teaching
Supervision of student papers (for data protection reasons, the papers have been made anonymous)
Master’s theses
- Survey of timber structures - Validation studies of a service life prediction tool
- The potential of detecting wood decay using photoacoustic imaging: a review
- Impact of micro-environmental temperature on wood decay induced by Basidiomycetes
- The effect of different crack sizes on the material climate of wooden components
2022
2021
2020
Project theses
- Investigation of the splash water exposure of wooden facades
- Evaluation of different scenarios for the accumulation of splash water on wood cladding and their effect on the material climate
- Development of wood moisture content in Norway spruce terrace elements - influence of slope, soil accumulation and water traps
- Analysis of the influence of neighbouring vegetation on the risk of fungal decay in Norway spruce boards
- Localised moistening of wood and subsequent inoculation of mycelium to determine the local loss of mass due to wood-destroying Basidiomycetes
- Modelling the relationship between mass loss and elastomechanical properties of fungal decayed wood
2021
2020
Bachelor's theses
2023
2021
2020
Publications