Light-weight materials based on wood for interior fittings and furniture have been of interest for at least the last fifty years, mainly for cost-reducing reasons. Today, the increasing care of …
Laminated veneer products consist of veneers bonded together with adhesive into a predetermined shape. Since wood is a hygroscopic material and also anisotropic by nature, laminated veneer products are especially …
Forecasts show that, already in 2020, the European consumption of wood and wood fibre raw material can be as large as Europe’s combined forest growth increment. An increasing proportion of …
Lignin has been studied as an adhesive for more than 100 years, but there are only a few industrial applications. The reason for the current interest is the high availability …
Exterior-use timber in multi-storey buildings requires durable fire-retardancy and biological resistance due to its exposure to environmental conditions involving direct water contact. Limited research has been demonstrated regarding whether a …
A major problem in the manufacture of three-dimensional laminated veneer products is damage due to stretching and/or buckling of the veneer. To reduce or eliminate this problem a modification of …
The cost pressure and capacity utilization in the wood industry are leading to a demand for large amounts of cheap wood as raw material. As a consequence, forestry is providing …
Surface densification has the potential to greatly increase the hardness of the outer parts of wood material, and thereby also increase the value of low-density species such as Scots pine …
A linear elastic orthotropic finite element model is made to estimate the displacement of in tension and compression tested CNC manufactured simple and thick gooseneck wood joints made of laminated …
To limit the climate impact of buildings, low carbon materials such as bio-based materials could be used. This study intends to contribute to the understanding of drivers and barriers for …
Fire retardant treated (FRT) timber can be produced by impregnation under high pressure with aqueous guanyl-urea phosphate (GUP) and BA (Gao et al., 2006). However, neither GUP nor BA is …
Maleic anhydride (MA) is a cyclic anhydride which can form an ester bond with wood constituents. Previous studies showed that maleated wood improved dimensional stability and fungal resistance (Matsuda et …
Modification with cyclic anhydrides forms an ester bond with wood component, whilst providing bound carboxylic moieties capable of undergoing further reaction (Hill and Mallon 1998). In studies of cotton cellulose, …
Fungal damage of wood causes the degradation of cell-wall components, resulting in changes in the chemical structure and mechanical properties (Schmidt 2006; Witomski et al. 2016). However, the aesthetic performance …
The transverse compression of wood under non-destructive conditions (densification) leads to an improvement of the mechanical properties. In surface densification – as opposed to bulk densification – only a thin …
