Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society
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A vibration test to measure the mass of a specimen without weighing it using the difference between the resonance frequency with an additional mass and that without it (vibration method with additional mass, V...
Wood-decay fungi produce extracellular enzymes that metabolize wood components such as cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Each fungus has a preference of wood species as the host, but identification of these...
Some hardwoods have a higher density and superior structural performance than softwoods, which are generally used as construction materials in buildings. Therefore, the characteristics of hardwoods are advanta...
Hardwood has become widespread in European forests. The strongest factor is climate change and damage to conifers by the bark beetle. The effort to study hardwoods grows with increasing volume of applications....
Condensed tannins exhibit diverse bioactivities that render them promising for applications in the food and medical fields. For the analysis and monitoring of condensed tannins, 13C-labeled derivatives would prov...
There is currently a strong interest in wood and the demand for this material is expected to grow significantly worldwide. Consequently, market demand for wood from fruit orchards is growing as an additional s...
The material properties of sapwood and heartwood vary within various wood species and even they can show significant differences within a single tree. Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), a species that plays a cruc...
This work deals with the influence of different heat treatment temperatures (140, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190, 200, and 210 °C) on changes in sapwood and red heartwood of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Accordin...
The coffin-reliquary for the relics of the holy Serbian king Stefan Uroš III of Dečani has been made around 1343 as a rectangular chest with a gable cover. The present study aimed to identify the wood this cof...
Sleep plays an important role in human health. Changes in the sleeping environment can affect sleep quality. The present study investigated the effects of natural wood on sleep quality. The interior material ...
Wood constantly interacts with the surrounding, locally varying climate, leading to changes in the moisture content. Advanced simulation tools can predict the two-dimensional moisture distributions caused by t...
The impact of 2-ethylanthraquinone (2-EAQ) on alkaline cooking of Eucalyptus pellita wood was examined by analyzing pulp yield, kappa number, the structure and weight-averaged molecular weight (Mw) of dissolved l...
Lauraceae is a family of woody plants of economic importance mainly for their commercial exploitation as timber, as well as spices/food. Nonetheless, overexploitation is causing a decline in both the populatio...
This study presents an experimental and numerical comparison between the mechanical performance of a lightweight corrugated sandwich panel based on the tea oil camellia shell (TOCS). Hence, TOCS was mixed in t...
Biomass-based adhesives, which are environmentally friendly and sustainable materials enabling low formaldehyde wood composites, have garnered interest. Therefore, palm kernel shells (PKS), available as indust...
Despite the increasing outdoor use of fire-retardant-treated wood, methods for predicting its service life remain poorly established. With the aim of establishing a method to predict chemical losses from fire-...
Physically modelling the mechanical response of a tree by numerical simulation depends on having accurate data on the mechanical properties of green hardwood. Lacking such data, we developed and validated an o...
The compression properties of wood perpendicular to the grain is an important resistance mechanism in timber joints, especially wood-to-wood joints. Hence, improving the compression properties of wood is essen...
There are numerous wooden historical artifacts in Kyoto and other parts of Japan, including Buddhist statues or Shinto deities. The identification of wood species in these historical artifact is desirable for ...
As an important renewable resource, wood is widely used in various industries. When addressing wood defects that limit the amount of wood used during processing, manual inspection and other technologies are no...
A novel X-ray scanner system to identify the positions of knots in logs is described. The scanner has a simple, low-cost design that is suitable for use in medium and smaller sawmills. It makes X-ray measureme...
Mechanical properties of wood–plastic composites are influenced by a particle size and surface morphology of wood flour. Generally various sizes of wood flour are produced from single solid wood even if the si...
Three mediators for the laccase mediator system, 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (3-HAA), 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA), and phenol red (PR) were investigated as mediators in an electrolytic mediator system (EMS) for ...
A C6–C2-type non-phenolic syringyl lignin model compound (I, 2-(2-methoxyphenoxy)-1-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)ethanol) as well as its derivatives was acidolyzed in aqueous 82vol% 1,4-dioxane containing 0.2 mol/L HB...
In Japanese households, it is customary to walk barefoot on wooden floors. Previous reports on the psychological and physiological relaxing effects of feet contact with uncoated solid wood have already been pu...
Squaring, a wood transformation process, is an operation which consists of introducing the logs into a squaring machine which then uses sharp tools to cut the wood into pieces with high surface quality. Tool s...
Oil palm trunk (OPT) is an inexpensive, abundantly available by-product of palm oil production which is typically not put to material use. Due to its comparably high cellulose content, OPT represents a suitabl...
Furan compounds, including 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and furfural, can be synthesized from biomass and have garnered attention for their potential applications in biofuels and resin precursors. In this study, th...
In parallel with the development of novel materials, such as cellulose nanofibers (CNFs), their effects on aquatic organisms should be evaluated. In ecotoxicity testing, concentration measurements are importan...
The demand for high-purity cellulose, optimization of wood utilization, and environmentally friendly processes has increased in dissolving pulp (DP) production. Sago palm fronds (SPF), an abundant agricultural...
Samples of Eucalyptus globulus wood were processed in a reaction media made up of 1-pentanol, water, and diluted acid catalyst. The effects of selected variables (proportion of 1-pentanol in the reaction media, c...
Pinus Pinaster Ait. is a softwood species indigenous of the South West of Europe, broadly spread alongside the Mediterranean Sea and present worldwide. Pinus Pinaster Ait. (ssp. Atlantica) is largely used in indu...
To assess the damage and fracture behavior of wood under load, a wood damage assessment method was proposed based on acoustic emission (AE) b-values and seismic magnitude difference entropy. First, AE signals ...
Traditional timber buildings are sensitive to wind action. Studying the wind pressure characteristics is the premise for the preventive conservation of traditional timber buildings. To investigate the computat...
The original article was published in Journal of Wood Science 2021 67:23
Assessing the residual performance of timber joints affected by decay is important for seismic diagnosis and reinforcement of timber structures. This study introduces a method to evaluate the embedment stiffne...
In past studies, finite element analysis (FEA) methods have been used to simulate the thermal and moisture coupling of wood. However, challenges remain in achieving high-quality three-dimensional (3D) simulati...
Most of the currently employed methods, such as Gamma method and shear analogy method, to estimate the bending stiffness and bending capacity of cross-laminated timber (CLT) beams, are computationally extensiv...
In this study, the effect of stacking position in the dryer on the drying rate during radio-frequency vacuum combined with mechanical press (RF/VP) drying was investigated for Douglas-fir and Radiata pine. Dry...
It has recently been suggested that processes related to water uptake from the tree-stem surface, such as water vapor exchange and rainwater permeation, have implications for forest hydrology. However, few stu...
To determine the surface relaxivity of pores plays a vital role in the application of time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance (TD-NMR) technology to porous structure characterization for wood. Currently, the su...
Low-rise buildings in Japan are predominantly made of wood. Furthermore, the government promotes the use of wood in mid- and high-rise buildings to tackle climate change. Therefore, the environmental impact of...
The construction of structures using cross-laminated timber (CLT) has grown in popularity as a result of its environmentally friendly and high-strength characteristics. The primary function of angle bracket co...
The objectives of the present study are to clarify the effect of macro- and micro-environment on the radial growth patterns and radial variation patterns of basic density in hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa (...
This research used the new ISO 23478-2022 standard as a reference for the calculation of mechanical properties of N-finity, and to understand the failure modes in compression. Previous studies have investigate...
The method used to cultivate the popular Japanese mushroom Grifola frondosa (maitake), called 'wood log cultivation', comprised two steps: (1) the mycelium is grown around a wood log in a plastic bag, and (2) the...
This study confirmed that the loss tangent (or tangent loss, tan δ) obtained from the longitudinal vibration of a wood log increases with the apparent density difference between sapwood and heartwood, owing to mo...
Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) measurements of water-saturated radiata pine wood in the temperature range from 0 ℃ to 100 ℃ were focused to clarify the transition in viscoelastic properties within successiv...
Although embedment properties are vital to timber engineering, the behavior and strain distributions in wood-based panels have not been clarified in detail. Our early studies suggested four possible causes of ...
In this work, a new type of structural sandwich panels made with laminated oil palm wood core and rubberwood-based oriented strand board (OSB)/plywood faces were introduced for energy-efficient wall applicatio...
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