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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 4 Thickness swelling (TS) and volumetric swelling coefficient (S) of six groups of experimental BWCs

From: Physical and mechanical properties of composites made from bamboo and woody wastes in Taiwan

Groups of specimens (n = 9)

TS%

S%

W

16.09 (1.94)c

18.45 (2.07)

B

11.67 (0.79)a

13.14 (1.08)

BW

13.85 (0.62)b

14.67 (0.72)

B/W/B

12.61 (1.17)ab

14.02 (2.05)

W/B/W

15.56 (0.61)c

17.61 (0.96)

B/2W/B

13.36 (1.74)b

14.06 (2.44)

  1. Results are mean ± SD, n = 9; numbers followed by different letters (a–c) are statistically different at the probability level of p < 0.05 according to Tukey’s test and ANOVA