Items for "wood densification"

Resistance of thermo-hygro-mechanically densified wood to colonisation and degradation by brown-rot fungi

Colonisation and wood degradation by three brown-rot fungi, Coniophora puteana, Gloeophyllum trabeum and Poria placenta, were studied in wood of Norway spruce (Picea abies) subjected to three different treatments: hygro-thermal (TH) (160 and 180°C), mechanical densification and thermo-hygro-mechanical (THM) treatment including densification and post-treatment under saturated steam conditions at different temperatures (140, 160 and 180°C)...

Keywords: brown rot, hyphal growth, light microscopy, soft-rot tunnelling basidiomycetes, thermo-hygro-mechanical (THM) wood, wood densification