Effect mechanism of dry and wet alternate ageing on wood during exothermic behaviour

In recent years, ancient wooden building fires have been a hot issue that has not been properly solved. The existing ancient wood buildings objectively have serious natural ageing phenomenon, among which the dry and wet alternating ageing phenomenon of wood caused by water is the most serious. However, the phenomenon of dry and wet alternating ageing pays less attention to the influence of wood combustion. Therefore, this study took the typical wood species of ancient wooden buildings as the research object, based upon the natural ageing phenomenon of these buildings, determining the artificial acceleration of dry and wet alternate ageing method, to obtain dry and wet alternate ageing wood. The thermal diffusion coefficient of dry and wet ageing wood was analysed by thermal property experiments. Using differential scanning calorimetry experiment, we appraised the change law of heat flow in the combustion process of dry and wet ageing wood, determined the characteristic peak intensity and stage continuous temperature of dry and wet ageing wood, and mastered the change characteristics of wood in different thermal release stages affected by dry and wet alternating ageing. Finally, the apparent activation energy distribution of ageing wood in different exothermic stages was calculated and analysed by isoconversion method. The influence mechanism of alternating dry and wet ageing on wood combustion thermal release behaviour was revealed. The results show that the main thermal release of dry-wet ageing is the stage of volatiles precipitation. The alternate ageing of dry and wet has the greatest impact on the energy demand of thermal response in the accelerated thermal release stage. The influence of alternating dry and wet ageing on different types of wood in the rapid exothermic stage is quite different.

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This study investigates the thermal properties of typical wood species in ancient wooden buildings using an artificial acceleration method for dry and wet alternating ageing. Through thermal property experiments and differential scanning calorimetry experiments, the influence mechanism of alternating dry and wet ageing on wood combustion thermal release behaviour is revealed.