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Most wooden structures for outdoor applications require repetitive maintenance operations to protect the surfaces from adverse effects of weathering. One-sided surface modification of boards with a relatively fast charring process …
Year: 2017
Tags: claddings, sorption, thermal modification, wood, wood char
Authors:The decrease of water sorption is one of objectives of wood acetylation (Ac) with acetic anhydride (AA). The water absorption in acetylated wood might be decreased with rapeseed (Brassica napus) …
Year: 2017
Tags: acetylation, aspen, impregnation, rapeseed oil, water absorption
Authors:This presentation is devoted to study and comparison some of physical properties of thermally modified wood – black poplar (Populus nigra L.). The study discusses the most common method of …
Year: 2017
Tags: black poplar wood, physical properties, thermal modification, wood modification
Authors:The furniture industry is an innovative industry that produces high added value products and its turnover is several billions of euros in Europe. Nowadays competitiveness is an essential factor for …
Year: 2017
Authors:Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) heartwood is rich of stilbenes, which are known to have antimicrobial and antifungal effects. Wide natural among-tree variation has been reported in heartwood stilbene content, …
Year: 2017
Tags: fluorescence, heartwood, sorting, stilbenes, variation
Authors:It is well known that the xylem of gymnosperm trees consists mainly of tracheids and that the dimensions of these cells change over the growth season in temperate regions. When …
Year: 2017
Tags: cell wall composition, earlywood, latewood, Raman microspectroscopy
Authors:A sorption isotherm expresses the relation between ambient relative humidity (RH) and equilibrium moisture content of a material for a specific temperature. The sorption isotherm can generally be divided into …
Year: 2017
Tags: model, over-hygroscopic moisture range, sorption isotherm, wood anatomy
Authors:The durability of coated wood in outdoor exposure is strongly influenced by the water sorption and liquid permeability properties of the wood substrate. Those properties may also influence the ability …
Year: 2017
Tags: Norway spruce, swelling, water sorption, wilhelmy plate method
Authors:The main objective of the study was to evaluate the impact of edge bonding technology and different initial moisture content (MC) of lamellas to the air-permeability properties of cross laminated …
Year: 2017
Tags: air permeability, crack development, cross-laminated timber (CLT), edge bonding, initial moisture content
Authors:Processing of wood produces large amounts and different types of wood residues. Nowadays a part of these residues is used in production of wood plastic composites (WPC). It is known …
Year: 2017
Tags: mechanical properties, particle size, thermally modified wood, water resistance, wood plastic composites WPC
Authors:False heartwood is a phenomenon where penetration of oxygen discolors the wood. It is an undesirable defect which influences the applications of the wood. The properties and formation of false …
Year: 2017
Tags: birch (Betula pendula), false heartwood (FHW), modification, wood plastic composites WPC
Authors:Cascading use is the efficient utilization of resources by using residues and recycled materials to extend the total biomass availability within a given system. Cascading use of wood takes place …
Year: 2017
Tags: cascade use, fibreboard, mechanical properties, recycling, wood polymer composites
Authors:Wood industry generates many waste in the form of postconsumer materials. Utilization costs are high. Curing of receivers, who know the manner of such a material processing would be the …
Year: 2017
Tags: biomass, enzymatic hydrolysis, particleboard, pine
Authors:Both biotic and abiotic factors contribute to wood degradation. The biotic factors cover microbial activity which by a variety of enzyme systems is capable of deconstructing wood cell walls, whereas …
Year: 2017
Tags: cyclic mechanical loading, enzymatic hydrolysis, tensile strength
Authors:It is a trivial fact that water is needed for decay of wood by brown rot fungi, but when this is looked at in more detail, there are several fundamental …
Year: 2017
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