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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 1 Details of the samples

From: Positive physiological effects of touching sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) with the sole of the feet

Materiala

h (mm)

λ [W/(m K)]b

Ra (µm)c

Rz (µm)c

Uzukuri wood

20 (+SP 24)

0.106

52.38

234.91

Sanded wood

20 (+SP 24)

0.120

3.65

35.46

Marble

20 (+SP 24)

1.947

0.16

3.22

  1. The evaluation length was 50 mm. The cut-off value was 8 mm. The central portion of the samples was measured five times with 50-mm spacing, and the average value was calculated
  2. h Thickness of the material, λ thermal conductivity, Ra arithmetic average roughness, Rz maximum height roughness, SP structural plywood
  3. aThe samples were cut out from the center part of the material to a size of 300 × 300 mm, and their physical properties were assessed. Note that the wood samples were used with the cedar plywood attached. b A heat flow meter (HFM 436 Lambda; NETZSCH, Selb, Germany), tuned according to ASTM C518-10 [19] and ISO8310 [20], was used. The direction of heat flow was vertically downward. The temperatures of the high- and low-temperature heat plates were 35 °C and 15 °C, respectively. The thermal conductivity at an average material temperature of 25 °C was calculated. c To determine the roughness of the material, a contact surface roughness profilometer (SE3500; Kosaka Laboratory Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) with a diamond stylus was used