Abstract:
Cement and sand are two of the materials which
are used in the infrastructure development and are also main
components of masonry coatings. Nevertheless, negative
impacts indicated by these materials are crucial. Cement
production accounts for considerable amount of global CO2
emissions while sand mining activities disturb the natural
equilibrium. However, cement and sand consumption can be
considerably reduced by omitting wall plastering. In order to
accomplish the requirement of smoothing the wall, application
of wall care putty materials to an unplastered wall can be
considered as a sustainable solution. This research study was
conducted to investigate the fungus growth and moss growth on
different wall care putty materials along with different walling
materials. Four types of walling materials and ten types of wall
care putty mixtures were selected. Fungus growth and moss
growth were conducted in controlled environment to accelerate
fungus growth and moss growth on wall care putty materials.
Results of this study showed that wall care putty mixtures were
not prone to fungus growth under tropical climatic conditions.
Moss growth was present on wall care putty mixtures and there
was an impact from the walling material to the growth of moss
on the surface of putty application
Citation:
S. A. A. Gunawardanaa, G. A. H. H. Galkanda and R. U. Halwatura, "Investigation of Fungus Growth and Moss Growth on Different Wall Care Putty Materials Along with Different Walling Materials," 2020 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2020, pp. 96-101, doi: 10.1109/MERCon50084.2020.9185289.