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- 2023Heat treatment of poplar plywood: modifications in physical, mechanical and durability propertiescitations
- 2021Assessment of catalytic torrefaction promoted by biomass potassium impregnation through performance indexescitations
- 2021A potassium responsive numerical path to model catalytic torrefaction kineticscitations
- 2020Anti-fungal and anti-termite activity of extractives compounds from thermally modified ash woodscitations
- 2019Termite and decay resistance of bioplast-spruce green wood-plastic compositescitations
- 2018Comparative study of local Tunisian woods properties and the respective qualities of their charcoals produced by a new industrial eco-friendly carbonization processcitations
- 2017Some physical and mechanical characterization of Tunisian planted #Eucalytus loxophleba# and #Eucalyptus salmonophloia# woods
- 2017Developing biocomposites panels from food packaging and textiles wastes: Physical and biological performancecitations
- 2017Resistance of thermally modified ash (#Fraxinus excelsior# L.) wood under steam pressure against rot fungi, soil-inhabiting micro-organisms and termitescitations
- 2016Study on chemical oxidation of heat treated lignocellulosic biomass under oxygen exposure by STA-DSC-FTIR analysiscitations
- 2016Control of wood thermal treatment and its effects on decay resistance: a reviewcitations
- 2015Heat treatment of tunisian soft wood species: effect on the durability, chemical modifications and mechanical propertiescitations
- 2015Impact of location and forestry conditions on some physical and mechanical properties of northern Tunisian #Pinus pinea# L. woodcitations
- 2015Mechanical characterization of heat-treated ash wood in relation with structural timber standards
- 2015Utilization of temperature kinetics as a method to predict treatment intensity and corresponding treated wood quality: Durability and mechanical properties of thermally modified woodcitations
- 2014Advantage of vacuum versus nitrogen to achieve inert atmosphere during softwood thermal modification
- 2013Utilization of TG-DSC to study thermal degradation of beech and silver fir
- 2013Effect of the nature of the inert atmosphere used during thermal treatment on chemical composition, decay durability and mechanical properties of wood
- 2013Comparison of chemical composition and decay durability of heat treated wood cured under different inert atmospheres: Nitrogen or vacuumcitations
- 2013Comparison of mechanical properties of heat treated beech wood cured under nitrogen or vacuumcitations
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Comparison of mechanical properties of heat treated beech wood cured under nitrogen or vacuum
Abstract
Heat treated wood has been subjected to increasing interest during the last decade. This non biocidal treatment is an attractive alternative with a low environmental impact to improve decay resistance of low natural durability wood species. Nowadays, several types of heat treatment processes exist. These treatments differ mainly by the nature of the inert atmosphere used to avoid combustion of wood: nitrogen, steam pressure, oil or more recently vacuum. We have shown in a previous study that utilization of vacuum to perform thermal treatment instead of nitrogen allows to reduce considerably degradation of wood polysaccharrides. Indeed, it appears that for a similar 12% mass loss generated by thermal degradation, thermodegradation performed under vacuum allowed to reduce degradation of sugar constitutive of hemicelluloses and formation of recondensation products within the wood structure. These results may be explain by the effect of vacuum allowing removal of volatile degradation products like organic acids, aldehydes and furans limiting therefore acidic degradation of polysaccharides and recondensation of volatile by-products. Decay durability tests, performed against different brown and white rots fungi, have shown no significant differences for vacuum and nitrogen heat treated samples, all presenting an improved decay resistance. According to these results, the aim of this short paper is to report the effect of vacuum versus nitrogen on the mechanical properties of heat treated samples making the assumption that lower degradation of wood polysaccharides during treatment performed under vacuum may reduce the weakening of mechanical properties. For this purpose, modulus of rupture (MOR) and modulus of elasticity (MOE) in bending and Brinell hardness (HB) were determined. Results show that the mechanical properties were lower degraded in the case of wood samples treated under vacuum.