Densification of timber: a review on the process, material properties, and application

JP Cabral, B Kafle, M Subhani, J Reiner… - Journal of wood …, 2022 - Springer
Timber densification is a process that has been around since the early 1900s and is
predominantly used to enhance the structural properties of timber. The process of …

Wood mechanical densification: a review on processing

Y Luan, CH Fang, YF Ma, BH Fei - Materials and Manufacturing …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
As a renewable and low-price material, wood has been used extensively in the construction,
furniture and other fields. However, the mechanical strength of most wood species is …

Deep eutectic solvents-assisted wood densification: A promising strategy for shape-fixation

Y Ran, D Lu, J Jiang, Y Huang, W Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Densified wood is preferable for structural applications because of its excellent mechanical
properties and sustainability, but the fixation of its compression deformation and the …

Improved performance of poplar wood by an environmentally-friendly process combining surface impregnation of a reactive waterborne acrylic resin and unilateral …

J Wu, Q Fan, Q Wang, Q Guo, D Tu, C Chen… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
To improve the undesirable intrinsic properties of plantation wood, this study presents the
development of unilaterally surface-densified wood with high dimensional stability, surface …

Performance improvement of radiata pine wood by combining impregnation of furfuryl alcohol resin and densification for making fretboard materials

M Liu, S Lyu, L Cai, L Peng, J Tang, Z Huang… - Industrial Crops And …, 2021 - Elsevier
The fast-growing plantation radiata pine wood has undesirable intrinsic properties, which
cannot meet the physical and mechanical performance requirements of string instrument …

Effective strategy for fabricating surface impregnated and unilaterally densified wood with furfuryl alcohol/flame retardants for enhanced mechanical performance and …

Y Huang, Z Zheng, C Chen, C Guo, X Wang… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
The widespread utilization of fast-growing plantation timber in furniture and building
construction is often hindered by defects such as insufficient mechanical strength …

Change in micromechanical behavior of surface densified wood cell walls in response to superheated steam treatment

E **ang, R Huang, S Yang - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
The combination of surface densification and superheated steam treatment is an effective
method to improve the mechanical properties and dimensional stability of low-density wood …

Determination of the machining characteristics of Uludağ fir (Abies nordmanniana Mattf.) densified by compressing

SD Sofuoglu, M Tosun, A Atılgan - Wood Material Science & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The main objective of this study is to determine optimum machining parameters to specify
the effect of densification by compressing the processing properties of wood material and to …

Effect of densification on the physical and mechanical properties of the inner part of oil palm trunk impregnated with methylene diphenyl diisocyanate

SUNM Mangurai, D Hermawan, YS Hadi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) plantations in Indonesia are increasing over the
past few years. After economic productivity, however, the unproductive oil palm trunks are …

Combined effect of organosolv delignification/polymerization on the set recovery of densified poplar wood

SMH Yahyaee, F Dastoorian, M Ghorbani… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
According to recent literature, delignification could be a new approach to enhance
mechanical properties of densified wood. In the present study, the effect of delignification …