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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 2 The pore characteristic parameters of untreated wood and THM woods from MIP

From: Effect of thermo-hydro-mechanical densification on microstructure and properties of poplar wood (Populus tomentosa)

Samples

Oven density (g/cm3)

Bulk density at 2.90 kPa

Total intrusion volume (mL/g)

Total pore area (m2/g)

Average pore diameter (4 V/A)/nm

MIP porosity (%)

Theoretical porosity (%)

Untreated

0.41

0.43

0.90

40.80

90.6

49.03

73.20

CR50

0.75

0.75

0.65

33.24

88.5

48.07

50.98

CR60

0.90

0.97

0.34

28.85

40.5

32.79

41.18

CR70

1.10

1.10

0.19

19.04

38.8

20.26

28.10

CR75

1.30

1.41

0.04

11.56

12.3

5.00

15.03

  1. THM thermo-hydro-mechanical, CR compression ratio, V/A volume/area, MIP mercury intrusion porosimetry