The demand of wood, especially in the wood panel industry, is steadily rising. At the same time, the availability of wood as a raw material is decreasing due to climate change and stricter harvesting restrictions. A promising solution to overcome the shortage of raw materials is the reinforcement of wooden beams or panels to increase the strength-to-weight ratio, which leads to a reduction of wood consumption in the production of wood-based panels. Structural elements can be either planked with veneers or laminates (Hse et al. 2012; Barbosa et al. 2015; Zaia et al. 2015) or reinforced with fibres or grids (Cai 2006; Mohebby et al. 2011; Sam-Brew and Smith 2015). In recent decades, ligno-cellulosic fibres as green reinforcement materials. Due to their lower strengths plastics as well as inorganic materials have been tested as high-performance reinforcement alternatives (Plevris and Triantafillou 1992; Fiorelli and Dias 2003).
The objective of this comparative study was to evaluate the influence of basalt grid reinforcement on PB and OSB with different densities and binder types.
Keywords: reinforcement, panels, Basalt fibres
Authors
Aaron Mayer
Department of Wood Biology and Wood Products, University of Göttingen, Germany
Carsten Mai
Department of Wood Biology and Wood Products, University of Göttingen, Germany
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