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 …
Wood is a hygroscopic material that absorbs and exchanges water molecules with the surrounding environment if it is exposed to water vapour or liquid water. Water molecules within the wood …
In wood, water is taken up both in cell walls and as capillary water in macro voids such as cell lumina and pit chambers. Because of the relatively large dimensions …
Wood is a naturally hygroscopic material, and the atmospheric water molecules interact with sorption sites in the cell wall, causing changing moisture contents depending on the relative humidity of the …
Due to the inherent biological nature, wood is susceptible to microbial degradation. Traditionally, broad toxicity biocides have been used to protect wood against decay, but these are gradually being phased …
To find the most suitable wood species for different outdoor applications, different wood species should be compared on the same basis. This means, among other things, the same dimensions and …
Water is an essential requirement for fungal degradation, but the exact role of water is not fully understood (Brischke & Alfredsen 2020). Fungal hyphae need capillary water (Rayner & Boddy …
Wood susceptibility to fungal degradation may be reduced by a range of non-toxic wood modification methods. Some modification methods alter wood-water interactions, which could be the reason for its improved …
Understanding wood-water interaction is crucial to predict and possibly manipulate dimensional changes and degradation of structural wood (Sandberg 2017; Thybring 2021; Thybring 2018). Raman Spectroscopy (RS) has been used with …
