The house longhorn beetle, Hylotrupes bajulus L., is a recognized wood pest with larvae capable of infesting and damaging various wood species. The larvae’s wood-cutting capability is attributed to the metal-reinforced chitin in their mandibles …

The wood-based panel industry in Europe, which is dominated by the use of Norway spruce, will face new challenges due to environmental changes and the bark-beetle calamity, which started a new era of forestry. To explore the possibility of …

Elastic fasteners have been widely adopted in timber sleeper tracks in certain high-demand areas across North American freight network due to their excellent potential to mitigate rail-rollover derailments by resisting steering moment and rotation …

The paper presents a fully Lagrangian mesh-free solver to simulate the dynamic behavior of post-tensioned timber structures. Weakly Compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is employed to model both the timber and the tendon. An …

This paper presents the dynamic characteristics of the glued-laminated-timber (glulam) floor within China's tallest timber office building and establishes a Finite Element (FE) model. The veracity of the FE model is substantiated through …

Not before the year 2016, the European standard system did allow for classifying the durability of treated wood in addition to natural durability of untreated wood species. After its latest revision, EN 350 (2016) allows a durability …

Cork planks with Yellow Stain (YS) defect are rejected from cork-stopper factory industries resulting in large economical losses. This defect has been related to 2,4,6—trichloroanisole (TCA), a chemical compound responsible for an off-flavor aroma …

Bamboo nodes are an important component for increasing the hardness and stability of growth. However, little is known about how bamboo nodes affect resistance to biological control agents for industrial use. This study aims to analyze the …

Coating paper with cellulose micro/nanofibrils (CMF/CNF) can improve the performance of paper packaging. However, the cost of the process is high due to the significant energy consumption during the CMF/CNF production process, which can be reduced …

While traditional wood preservatives may impede wood decay, their potential harm to both human health and the environment has led to limitations in their usage. This has spurred recent research to focus on seeking wood preservatives derived from …

Parinari curatellifolia is the main species used to produce charcoal in Angola. Its chemical, anatomical, and thermal properties were analyzed. The bark is dark grey, rough, and corky, and the wood is brown to yellow-red. Compared to wood, bark …

This work uses the M-theta method on a new proposed specimen called "I-specimen" for the numerical modeling of cracks on some tropical hardwoods in general and in particular on some Cameroonian woods. The finite element analysis of fracture in an …

The fire performance of buildings can be assessed through the thermal and charring characteristics of laminated bamboo lumber (LBL), due to its combustibility properties, which are akin to those of wood. This study employed Thermal Gravimetric …

Virgin cork is a little-known, sustainable and relatively scarce raw material. However, its global output is expected to increase substantially as recent cork oak plantations are stripped for the first time. The work described here aimed to …

Hybrid cross-laminated timber (CLT), being a derivative of generic CLT, offers the advantages of combining different materials to achieve improved performance. This study focused on investigating the withdrawal capacity of self-tapping screws …

Nowadays, using flame-retardant chemicals is gaining importance in chipboard production. Melamine resins to produce chipboard are preferred to provide flame retardancy properties with a cost of approximately 2.5 times the urea–formaldehyde (UF) …

Wooden pallets can straightforwardly sustain fractures during storage and transportation. This shortens their service life. To minimize the economic losses caused by damage to wooden pallets, this study aimed to 1) investigate the falling damage …

This paper presents an experimental study on the flexural behavior of hybrid Pine-Birch Glued-Laminated Timber (GLT) beams. The study focuses on the performance of GLT beams with different lengths (2.1 and 2.8 m) and different compositions of …

This paper details the manufacturing and dynamic performance evaluation of bamboo spur gears utilizing bamboo powder. The research involved a comparison between the accuracy and dynamic performance of a bamboo gear and a POM gear. Initially, a …