Journal
BIORESOURCES
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 1482-1495Publisher
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV DEPT WOOD & PAPER SCI
DOI: 10.15376/biores.16.1.1482-1495
Keywords
Shore-D hardness; Exotic wood species; Heat treatment; ThermoWood
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- FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, I.P. [UIDB/00681/2020]
- Instituto Politecnico de Viseu
- CERNAS
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Hardness is an important property of wood for various applications. Heat treatment was found to decrease the hardness of wood, with the magnitude of decrease depending on treatment time and temperature, and varying among different wood species. Additionally, analysis of variance tests revealed significant effects of wood species, heat treatment, and the interaction between both variables on wood hardness.
Hardness is an important wood property for several applications. Typically, it is necessary to use traditional methods, such as a universal test machine, to determine a wood's hardness value. This work reports the hardness of some wood species before and after heat treatment (ThermoWood method) using the Shore-D hardness method. The Shore-D hardness value of untreated wood ranged between 35.3 for Limba wood and 77.2 for Santos wood. With heat treatment, hardness decreased, and the decrease was greater for samples that underwent harsher treatment (2 h at 212 degrees C). The decrease of hardness was highest for Sipo wood (14%) and the lowest for Afrormosia wood (2.5%). Analysis of variance tests showed that there was a significant difference between wood species, heat treatment, and the interaction between both variables at the chosen level of significance (P <= 0.05). Results showed that Shore-D hardness could be used to measure hardness directly in a production line or in small wood companies without using a universal test machine.
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