Retification is a heat treatment that decreases the swelling of wood and increases its resistance to fungal attack...
Keywords: differential scanning calorimetry, fibre saturation point, heat treatment, swelling, wood
01/2005 | Holzforschung, Walter de GruyterAnisotropic shrinkage (tangential and longitudinal), equilibrium moisture content (EMC) and fibre saturation point (FSP) were measured for separated earlywood (EW) and latewood (LW) of a 0.75-m-long log of 20-year old
Keywords: earlywood, equilibrium moisture content, fibre saturation point, longitudinal shrinkage, latewood, Pinus radiata, tangential shrinkage
11/2005 | Holzforschung, Walter de GruyterThe data from a previous study of the moisture adsorption of Corsican pine modified with linear chain carboxylic acid anhydrides (acetic, propionic, butyric, valeric, hexanoic) has been reanalysed so that moisture content is reported as a percentage of cell wall mass only...
Keywords: acetylated wood, fibre saturation point, Hailwood-Horrobin model, sorption isotherm
07/2008 | Holzforschung, Walter de Gruyter