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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 7 Coefficients of correlation (r) between DI and the deterioration of mechanical properties

From: The evaluation of long-term mechanical properties of wood-based panels by indoor exposure tests

Mechanical properties

Panels

Calculation methods of DI

4-Li

4-Ex

4-Lo

8-Li

8-Ex

8-Lo

12-Li

12-Ex

12-Lo

MOE

OSB(A)

0.458

0.486

0.435

OSB(P)

0.261

0.221

0.286

PB(P)

  

0.301

0.250

0.327

PB(I)

MDF(M)

0.333

0.391

0.258

0.601

0.601

0.601

PW(P)

0.227

0.228

0.223

MOR

OSB(A)

0.234

0.371

0.407

0.344

OSB(P)

PB(P)

0.289

0.251

0.309

MDF(M)

0.288

0.497

0.497

0.497

PW(P)

IB

OSB(A)

OSB(P)

PB(P)

PB(I)

0.305

0.287

0.315

0.247

0.233

0.262

NHPT

PB(P)

PB(I)

MDF(M)

  1. Bold italic values indicate the highest correlation
  2. DI deterioration intensity. OSB, PB, MDF, PW see Table 1. MOE, MOR, IB, NHPT see Table 2
  3. ‘–’ indicates no significant correlation