Surface roughness of thin wood veneers sliced from laminated green wood lumber



Document title: Surface roughness of thin wood veneers sliced from laminated green wood lumber
Journal: Maderas : ciencia y tecnología
Database:
System number: 000534570
ISSN: 0718-221X
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University School of Engineering, Zhejiang. China
2Louisiana State University School of Renewable Natural Resources, Baton Rouge. Estados Unidos
3Hebei Agricultural University School of Forestry, Hebei. China
Year:
Volumen: 20
Number: 1
Pages: 3-10
Country: Chile
Language: Inglés
English abstract Freshly-felled Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolate), Masson Pine (Pinus massoniana) and Camphor Tree (Cinnamomum camphora) logs were reconstituted to form laminated lumber with moisture content above fiber saturation point by slicing, finger-jointing, gluing, and cold-pressing processes. The laminated lumber was then sliced into wood veneers, which were air-dried to about 15% moisture content. The surface roughness of the veneer was tested in comparison with two commercial engineered wood veneers using a stylus tracing method. The influence of the wood surface roughness was relatively small for the wood species chosen due to their similar densities. All roughness parameter values were consistently larger along the transverse direction compared with these along longitudinal direction. The values of surface roughness at the finger-joint region were higher than these that at the non-finger-joint region along both longitudinal direction and transverse direction. The two engineered wood veneers had surface roughness values noticeably smaller in the longitudinal direction, but their values in transverse direction were comparable and even larger compared with these of the prepared wood veneers including both non-finger-joint and finger-joint regions. Overall, the process of laminating finger-jointed green wood planks and subsequently slicing can be used to yield acceptable wood veneers with sufficient surface quality.
Keyword: Cinnamomum camphora,
Cunninghamia lanceolate,
Finger joints,
High moisture content,
Laminated lumber,
Pinus massoniana.
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