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Influence of assemble patterns on bonding strength of glued bamboo
Journal of Wood Science volume 66, Article number: 60 (2020)
Abstract
As a kind of natural composite material, the outer side of bamboo was quite different from its inner side in microscopic structure and mechanical properties. In order to research the effect of these differences on bonding strength of glued bamboo, bamboo strips were bonded by three different forms: outer side to outer side, outer side to inner side and inner side to inner side. Shear strength results indicated that the bamboo sample glued by inner side to inner side has the greatest shear strength value, which is 18.35 MPa, and the other two types have similar shear strength values (approximately 14 MPa). In particular, for the sample glued by outer side to inner side, the broken part is always the outer side. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) images indicated that bamboo fiber cells and parenchyma cells have different failure patterns in compression shear test. For bamboo fiber cells, dominant destruction occurred at the interface between the fibers. And for parenchyma cell, fracture occurred on cell wall and broken the parenchyma cell itself. The interface between bamboo fiber cells was very weak, thus parenchyma cell was the major contributor to shear strength of bamboo. The inner side had higher shear strength because it had higher content of parenchyma cells. The SEM image and shear strength curve also indicated that in the early period of shearing process, the deformed parenchyma cells are in a relax status, and until the later period of shearing process, the parenchyma cells begin to contribute to shear strength.
Introduction
Bamboo is a kind of renewable material, and in recent years, it has attracted increasing attention. Because of its fast-growing speed, high strength and high fracture toughness, bamboo has been expected to be a sustainable alternative for traditional construction materials, such as wood, concrete, steel and timber [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8].
The bamboo culm is mainly composed of bamboo fiber cells and parenchyma cells [9,10,11,12,13,14]. Bamboo fiber cell is sclerenchymatous and has excellent mechanical properties [15,16,17]. The parenchyma cell is hollow and exhibit poor performance on mechanical properties [4, 9, 11, 18, 19]. If we treat bamboo as fiber-reinforced composite material, obviously, bamboo fiber is the reinforcement, and parenchyma is the matrix. As a kind of biomass materials, bamboo appears uneven on microscopic structure. The content of bamboo fiber decreases from outer side to inner side (along the radius, as shown in Fig. 1). The outer side of bamboo has higher density of bamboo fiber, thus the outer side often has better mechanical performances, like higher tensile strength [1, 4, 20]. Furthermore, this uneven structure caused difference in surface property of outer side and inner side. Comparing with the inner side, the surface of outer side is denser, and harder to be wetted. Surface property has great influence upon bonding performance, thus it is very important to study the effect of different assemble patterns on bonding strength of glue bamboo.
There are some factors that influence the bonding performance, such as wettability [21, 22], contact angle [23] of adhesive and surface roughness [24] of bamboo. In this work, bamboo strips (Phyllostachys edulis, 4 years old) were bonded by three different forms: outer side to outer side, outer side to inner side and inner side to inner side. The effect of glued form on bonding strength was also discussed in this research.
Materials and methods
Bamboo strips (4-year-old Moso bamboo, 20 mm × 30 mm × 10 mm), were glued by thermosetting phenolic resin (PF, Taier Chemical Company, Beijing) in this study. The bamboo strips were sanded and were cleaned by ultrasonic to ensure the surface was free from contaminant material. The molecular weight of phenolic resin was about 2000 to 3000. Bamboo strips were bonded by three different forms: outer side to outer side, outer side to inner side and inner side to inner side, as shown in Fig. 1. Each treatment had 10 repetitive samples. Firstly, bamboo strips were dipped in phenolic resin for 5 h and then dried in atmosphere for 12 h. Secondly, the bamboo strips which were combined as Fig. 1 were pre-compressed by automatic hot press (3895, CARVER Co., Ltd., USA) at 25 MPa for 10 min. The average glued spread rate is 12.4 wt%, and the bamboo surfaces were fully covered with phenolic resin. Lastly, the pre-compressed bamboo samples were cured by microwave oven at 100 °C for 15 min. In particular, microwave is a kind of high-frequency electromagnetic wave, whose wavelength is between 1 mm and 1 m, intermediate between infrared and short-wave radio wavelengths. In recent years, microwave has been considered as an alternative energy source for curing process [25, 26]. Our previous study had found that microwave could cut the curing time of PF by half and made the glued bamboo sample achieve higher bond strength [27]. Thus microwave was employed as the heating method in this study.
Figure 2 shows the morphology of one side of the glued bamboo strip. The average depth of phenolic resin was 73.8 μm, which means the permeability of phenolic resin was good enough to assure samples had strong glue bond strength.
Scanning electron microscope (SEM, FEG-ESEM-L30, FEI, USA) was employed to observe the morphology of cured phenolic resin and glued bamboo.
Bonding strength of bamboo strips was characterized by compression shear test, according to the standard of ISO 6238-2001: adhesives wood-to-wood bonds determination of shear strength by compressive loading. Compression shear strength was tested by Electronic Universal Testing Machine (WDW-E100, Jinan Time Shijin Instrument company, China), and loading speed was 1 mm/s.
Results and discussion
Shear test analysis
Figure 3 shows the fracture topography of bamboo samples after compression shear test. The three types of glued bamboo are all destroyed at the bamboo region, thus the bonding strength results of bamboo samples actually reflect the shear strength of bamboo itself. In particular, for the sample glued by outer side to inner side, the broken part is always the outer side. And the fracture topography on inner–outer side is very smooth may cause by lack of glue (just for this sample). In addition, the fracture surface of the inner side is much rougher than the fracture surface of outer side. The failure position and fracture surface topography seem to imply that the inner side is the stronger side under the shear load.
The shear strength results are shown in Fig. 4a. Among the three types, the inner–inner sample has the greatest shear strength value, which is 18.35 MPa. The other two kinds of samples have similar shear strength values, approximately 14 MPa, which are about 20% lower than that of the inner–inner sample. The shear strength results of the three types are all slightly higher than results of other researchers (11.33–12.84 MPa) [28]. And the reason for the difference may be microwave was employed as the heating method in this study. Figure 4b shows the load–displacement curves of the three types of samples. In particular, the curves of the three types of samples can be divided into two regions. When the load reaches around 2200 N, there are points of inflection on the load–displacement curves, and separate the curves into two regions. We will discuss this in more detail later in this paper.
Morphology analysis
Bamboo materials are mainly composed by bamboo fiber cells and parenchyma cells. On the outer side fiber content is much higher than that of the inner side, and this is in agreement with the morphology of fracture bamboo surface, as shown in Fig. 5.
Figure 6 shows the fracture morphology of bamboo fiber cells and parenchyma cells. Figure 6a, b indicates that the fiber cell itself is little broken in compress shear test. Under the action of shear force, there are some fibrils that warp and drop on bamboo fiber surface. And dominant destruction occurs at the interface between bamboo fibers. There are two types of cells in parenchyma in bamboo materials: long cells and short cells [14]. The long cells arrange vertically, and the short cells are scattered in the longer cells. In comparison with the long cells, the short cells have thinner cell walls and are not woody. Figure 6c–f shows the fracture morphology of long cells and short cells. It is clear from the SEM images that the shear force will break the parenchyma cells, whether they are long cells or short cells. Fracture occurs on the wall of parenchyma cell and finally chops up the parenchyma cell.
Mechanism analysis
The bamboo has a consistent structure from top to bottom. So along the glued line, the percentage of fibers (or parenchymata) can be calculated by the ratio of fibers (or parenchymata) length to the total length of glued line, as shown in the following graphic (Fig. 7).
According to this method, ten inner–outer samples were observed and calculated. For the outer side, the percentage of fiber along the glued line is 50.28%. And for the inner side, the percentage of fiber along the glued line is 18.49%, which means 71.51% are parenchymata.
Figure 8 is a schematic drawing that illustrates the different functions from different elements in bamboo. The bamboo fiber cells are connected by intercellular layer [18, 29]. The intercellular is naturally free of cellulose, whose dominant component is pectin and lignin. Cellulose is the skeleton element in biological cell wall, and cellulose is the key factor in bamboo mechanical performance.
The chemical components of intercellular layer result in its low mechanical performance, thus the interface between bamboo fiber cells is very weak. When the bamboo is broken by shear force, the weak interface will be the priority for cracks growth direction. So the fiber bundles have less contribution to shear strength of bamboo, as shown in Fig. 8a. Comparing with bamboo fiber cell, parenchyma cell is hollow and its cell wall is very thin. The size of a parenchyma cell is about 50 μm to 100 μm, and the cell wall is only about 3 μm to 5 μm. Thus the crack will easily break the parenchyma cell wall. Although the parenchyma cell wall is thin, its strength is much higher than that of bamboo fibers interface. Thus we consider that the parenchyma cell have greater contribution to shear strength of bamboo, as shown in Fig. 8b. In addition, the parenchyma cells are hollow structure. This means PF adhesive can infiltrate into parenchyma cells more deeply, and this is another important reason to the difference of shear strength. Since in the inner side, 71.51% cells are parenchymata, the inner-inner sample has the greatest shear strength value.
In this research, sample is broken at the bamboo part where is nearest to the glued interface. Figure 9a shows morphology of the glued interface. It is indicated from the SEM image that there is a deformable layer near the glued interface. This deformable layer includes about two to three layers of parenchyma cells, which have deformed under the action of pressure. We consider that there will be a decline of mechanical performance of the deformed parenchyma cells. Thus this deformable layer is the broken area in the shearing process. Figure 9b is a schematic drawing that illustrates the shearing process. If the shearing displacement is small, the pressed parenchyma cells will be still in the state of relaxation. Thus in the early period of shearing process, the parenchyma cells are not yet fully effective, for it is in relax status. In the later period of shearing process, the interface of bamboo fibers have been destroyed, and the parenchyma cells are tensioning with the increase of shearing displacement. At this period, parenchyma cells are the main contributor to shear strength. We consider that this is the main primary reason for the inflection on the load–displacement curves, which is shown in Fig. 4b.
Conclusion
Among the three types, the inner to inner sample has the greatest shear strength value, which is 18.35 MPa and about 20% higher than that of the other two kinds of samples. The parenchyma cells have greater contribution to shear strength of bamboo, and the inner side of bamboo has higher parenchyma cell density, thus the inner side of bamboo has higher shear strength. In the early period of shearing process, the deformed parenchyma cells are in a relaxed status, and the parenchyma cells become tensioning with the increase of shearing displacement. Thus until the later period of shearing process, the parenchyma cells begin to contribute to shear strength.
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Abbreviations
- SEM:
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Scanning electron microscope
- PF:
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Phenolic resin
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Zheng, Y., Yi, Bl., Tong, Yq. et al. Influence of assemble patterns on bonding strength of glued bamboo. J Wood Sci 66, 60 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s10086-020-01907-x
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