• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.28-37
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• 1992

Fine structures of some Korean woods were investigated by X-ray diffraction methods. Relative crystallinity measured by the Segal's method and by the area method was $53{\pm}6%$ and $43{\pm}8%$ in softwoods, and $54{\pm}5%$ and $45{\pm}5%$ in hardwoods, respectively. The crystallite dimension in width was $3.11{\pm}0.45nm$ in softwoods and $3.22{\pm}0.25nm$ in hardwoods. In the longitudinal direction, the dimension was $12.79{\pm}0.89nm$ in softwoods and $12.60{\pm}0.72nm$ in hardwoods. The d-spacings of (200) in equatorial and (004) in meridional layers were about 0. 397 run and about. 0.260 nm, respectively. As a result, relative crystallinity, crystallite dimensions and d-spacings of (200) did not show any differences between the softwoods and hardwoods. The ratio of integrated intensities of (002) and (004), however, showed some differences between the softwoods and hardwoods. Namely, it was $0.101{\pm}0.027$ in softwoods and $0.138{\pm}0.037$ in hardwoods.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.24-29
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• 1999

A model to classify domestic hardwood species for furniture applications was developed by using discriminant analysis. The results indicated that among those 36 domestic hardwoods, which have the desired properties for use in furniture parts, 15 species would possibly substitute for temperate hardwoods imported from North America and 21 species for tropical hardwoods imported from southeast Asia and western Africa.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.567-578
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• 2019

A common problem with fast-growing hardwoods is dimensional instability that limits use of their wood. In this study, we investigated the effects of pre-drying methods, temperatures, and heating duration on the specific gravity, water absorption, and dimensional stability of three tropical fast-growing hardwoods, jabon (Neolamarckia cadamba Roxb.), sengon (Falcataria moluccana Miq.), and mangium (Acacia mangium Willd.). Wood samples were pre-dried by two methods (fan and oven at $40^{\circ}C$), and heat treatments were performed at three temperatures (120, 150, and $180^{\circ}C$) for two different time periods (2 and 6 hours). The specific gravity, water absorption, dimensional stability, and structural changes of the samples were evaluated. The results revealed that heat treatments slightly reduced the specific gravity of all three wood species. In addition, the heat treatments reduced water absorption and significantly improved dimensional stability of the samples. Oven pre-drying followed by heat treatment at $180^{\circ}C$ for 6 hours resulted in good physical improvement of jabon and sengon wood. Fan pre-drying followed by heat treatment at $180^{\circ}C$ for 2 hours improved the physical properties of mangium wood. The heat treatment shows a promising technique for improving the physical characteristic of fast growing hardwoods.

• Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.43-49
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• 1999

The pH and buffering potential for water extract of seven hardwoods and three softwoods were determined. The pH values ranged from 3.81 to 5.51 for hardwoods and 4.08 to 5.49 for softwoods. The gelation time for a urea-formaldehyde resin for each woods was determined and found to be a range of one minute thirty seven seconds to two minutes thirty nine seconds. Results shows that gelation time of a urea-formaldehyde resin was directly correlated to the pH and inversely correlated with acid buffering potential for seven hardwoods and three softwoods aqueous extracts

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.8-14
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• 1997

Stress wave velocity, wave impedance, and stress wave elasticity of small, clear bending specimens of five domestic softwoods (Pinus densiflora, Pinus koraiensis, Chamaecyparis obtusa, Cryptomeria japonica, and Larix leptolepis) and four tropical hardwoods(Kempas, Malas, Taun, and Terminalia) were correlated with static bending modulus of elasticity(MOE) and modulus of rupture(MOR). The degree of correlation between stress wave parameters and static bending properties was dependent on wood species tested. Stress wave elasticity and wave impedance were better predictors for static bending properties than stress wave velocity for each species individually and for softwood or hardwood species taken as a group, even though elasticity and impedance were nearly equally correlated with static bending properties apparently. Based upon the correlation coefficient between stress wave parameters and static properties, stress wave elasticity and wave impedance were found as stress wave parameters which can be used for the purpose of the reliable and successful prediction of bending properties. The degree of correlation between static MOE and MOR was also different according to wood species tested. Static MOE was nearly as well correlated with MOR as was stress wave elasticity. The results of this research are encouraging and can be considered as a basis for further work using full-size lumber. From the results of this study, it was concluded that stress wave measurements could provide useful predictions of static bending properties and was a feasible method for machine stress grading of domestic softwoods and tropical hardwoods tested in this study.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.56 no.1
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• pp.77-81
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• 1982

The property of four tropical hardwoods were analyzed. xylans, extracted with 24% of potassium hydroxide and purified according to ethanol titration procedure, were examined for Pn, the uronic acid, methoxyl groups and acetyl groups content. Only mangrove, whose xylan content is similar to that of hardwoods in the temperature zone, had the ratio of units of xylose residue to the units of uronic acid residue as high as that of hardwoods in the temperature zone. Content of methoxyl groups showed the same result as uronic acid residue content. Various hemicellulose including D-xylose residue were contained in xylans extracted by D M S O. Acetyl groups content was compressed of 5.4% of M D X and 6.8% of R D X. Xylans unextracted by D M S O had acetyl groups. Pn measured by the viscosity method was about 200 and similar to the hardwood xylans of temperature zone. DPn calculated by uronic acid residue was similar to that of tropical zone.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.8-14
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• 1976

The capacity of wood to shrinkage is very important as the basis data for wood industry but there is no such data available as yet in Korea. So this article, as a study on forest biological, were made to determine the shrinkage properties of commercial hardwoods in Korea. The results of this study were as follows; 1) There are much difference of hardwoods shrinkage, generally values of heavy wood's shrinkage were larger than that of light wood's shrinkage. 2) The arithmetic; mean values of hardwoods shrinkage were respectively 9.03% on tangential, 4.09% on radial and 0.37% on longitudinal direction and its ratio of at : ar : al was appeared to be 10 : 5.5 : 0.4 3) Average shrinkage per 1% of moisture content was different due to the direction and species. 4) According to the increase of specific gravity the values of shrinkage increased. 5) It was recognized that the shrinkage of hardwoods had a tendency to decrease as increase of annual ring width of wood. 6) The shrinkage of tangential direction was in propertion to the shrinkage of radial direction.

• 보존과학연구
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• s.7
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• pp.246-264
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• 1986

Micoromorphological alterations of sea-waterlogged woods by marinemicro-oragnisms were investigated by the light and scanning electron microscopy as a part of serial investigations on the shipwrecked materials which were excavated at the sea shore of Wando-Kun, southern coast of Korea in 1984.Deterioration of sea-waterlogged wood by marine microorganisms were varied with the wood species. The degree of deterioration even in the same wood specieswas different according to the part where it was in mud of sea-water. However, the resistance of Torreya nucifera over the marine organisms was marked. Deterioration in cell wall may be classified into three types; thinning of cell wall, separation of secondary wall from compound middle lamella and tunneling of cell wall. Thinning and separation were frequently observed, while the tunneling was rare. Among the wood cell elements of hardwoods, vessel wall was the least deteriorated. The difference degree of degradation of cell wall constituents and the accumulation of inorganic substances in cell lumen indicate that some factors to be considered for the conservation treatment were discussed. The kinds of marine microorganisms invading and/or inhabiting in wrecked wooden ship were also discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.29-37
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• 1998

An image analysis program with the function of measuring various quantitative characteristics in the transverse surface of wood was developed using Delphi 2.0. Data on pore characteristics (conditions for image processing, proportion of pores in relationship to other elements, tangential diameter, area, tangential and radial diameter, x and y coordinates of pore center, and geometric coefficients) were saved in text file format. In addition, the pore area histogram in the tangential and radial directions was saved as a BMP (bitmap) type file. Analyses indicated that quantitative characteristics such as the relative radial distribution of pores in a growth ring, pore tangential area histogram, and proportion of pore in lumen area appear to be useful in separating four diffuse-porous woods and four ring-porous woods on the species level.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.54-67
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• 1996

Micromorphology of the vessel wall sculptures such as perforation plate, inter-vessel pits, vessel-ray pits, vessel-parenchyma pits, vestured pits, spiral thickening, and warts was observed in 78 species(45 genera, 25 families) of Korean hardwoods using a scanning electron microscopy. The SEM observation revealed the micromorphology of vessel wall sculptures which have not yet been described, and have confirmed findings already established at the light microscopical level.