[PDF] Top 20 Properties of thermally modified teakwood

... untreated teakwood; TTU = untreated teakwood; SG = specific gravity; EM = equilibrium moisture; VS = volumetric shrinkage; LS = longitudinal shrinkage; RS = radial shrinkage; TS = tangential shrinkage; AC = ... See full document

... parameters of wood compressed in perpendicular to the grains are heavily dependent on the direction of acting stresses relative to the annual ring orientation (Green et ...Knowledge of wood ... See full document

... content of the wood samples was between 8 - 10 %. The mixture of nitrogen, residual oxygen, and steam, which was produced during the treatment, remained in the autoclave during the whole ...mechanical ... See full document

... use of this fast growing tree species in ...use of this ...presence of oxygen in the process (Hill 2006, Militz and Altgen ...mechanical properties (Esteves and Pereira 2009, Kubojima et ... See full document

... dimensions of 25 x 25 x 1000 mm (width x height x length) using a band saw ...surfaces of the sticks were planed with a plane and processed to obtained the dimensions of 20 x 20 x 1000 mm (width x ... See full document

... one of the most popular tropical hardwood species and the principal commercial timber in Indo- nesia, especially in island of ...workability properties (Bhat and Florence 2003, Martawijaya et ... See full document

... resistance of wood species with low natural durability. However, this improvement of durability is realized at the expense of the mechanical ...mechanical properties are strongly correlated to ... See full document

... modification of a few species of Canadian wood leads to a significant decrease in its static bending strength, some decrease in the modulus of elasticity and for birch and ash wood - an increase in ... See full document

... the modified wood material, depending on the treatment temperature level, which could act as fungistatics and prevent fungus from growing, improving the resistance of the modified wood to ...activity ... See full document

... continuation of a previous study published in this journal, with the aim of evaluating the effect of the Brazilian industrial thermal modification process on some physical properties of ... See full document

... modification of wood by thermal treatments produces characteristic changes in its chemical composition and surface color and can improve the structural and esthetic ...objective of this paper is to evaluate ... See full document

... advantage of the chemical free ...wood properties (Esteves and Pereira 2009, Kamdem et ...effect of steam pretreatment on wood was investigated by various researchers (Inoue et ...effect of ... See full document

... values of the wood surfaces at a 60° incidence angle measured for Scots pine wood before and after artificial weathering are given in Table 2 and Figure ...property of reflecting light in a mirror-like ... See full document

... course of history, wood has remained one of the most important renewable natural resources available to ...material of botanical origin and possesses unique structural and chemical characteristics ... See full document

... proportion of juvenile wood (short cutting cycle - 25 years) (Shimizu et ...proportion of sapwood, which has physical, chemical and aesthetic characteristics (color and design) different from those ... See full document

... separation of the quaternary CL in separated ternary phases could also, in some extent, suppress problems related to the simultaneous presence of Sb and ...deposition of both ternaries (GaAsSb and ... See full document

... concentrations of only 5–15 mm after a single ...range of chemical ...times of these complexes makes them potentially attractive as probes for various physiological parameters such as pH or redox ... See full document

... distinction of raw material between central or peripherical forests products is relevant to explain value added to the wood ...end of the rotation, add more value to the unit of product, to the unit ... See full document

... organically modified with a hexadecyltrimethylammo- nium bromide salt (MERCK) (HDTMA) following the mod- ified technique of Yeh et ...was modified by in situ polymerization: the vinyl acetate monomer ... See full document

... synthesis of base phenol-formaldehyde resins using sodium lignosulfonate as partial replacement of phenol was ...duction of industrial and laboratory laminates. The properties of the ... See full document