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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 2 The reduction of MC at different compression speed

From: Studies on pre-treatment by compression for wood drying I: effects of compression ratio, compression direction and compression speed on the reduction of moisture content in wood

 

Speed (mm/min)

N

Mean reduction of MC (%)

SD (%)

C.V. (%)

Poplar

0.5

5

131.8

10.5

8

1

5

137.0

8.8

6

3

5

137.5

11.4

8

5

5

128.3

17.5

14

10

5

120.6

11.0

9

Chinese fir

0.5

5

115.4

29.9

26

1

5

102.4

28.7

28

3

5

81.4

7.8

10

5

5

81.2

5.3

6

10

5

75.5

5.6

7

  1. N number of specimens tested, SD standard deviation, C.V. coefficient of variation