Wood has very good properties as a building material, such as high stiffness to weight ratio and good insulation properties, and it is also biodegradable at the end of the life cycle. However, wood–water interactions has always been one of the main issues when using wood in the built environment. Nowadays, wood modification allows considerable reduction or even elimination of natural dis-advantages of wood in order to obtain better performance over the service life. Chemical, thermal and mechanical treatments are commonly applied to wood resulting in permanent or temporary changes in wood properties.
Despite the extensive literature on the wood modification and its water-related characteristics, comprehensive experimental data of wood-water interactions for various wood modifications are limited. Therefore, the present study aims to study wood-water related characteristics, i.e., water vapour and liquid water, for thermally modified, acetylated and MF resin modified beech wood (Fagus sylvat-ica L.).
Keywords: wood modification, sorption isotherm, wood-water interaction
Authors
Petr Čermák
Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 61600, Brno, Czech Republic
Jakub Dömény
Petr Pařil
Radim Rousek
Dominik Hess
Jan Baar
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