Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society
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In the present study, we identify similar Pinus species that have been used as building materials for traditional architecture in Korea. Discriminant models were designed to identify wood species of Pinus densifl...
This study focused on solute diffusing into cell walls in solution-impregnated wood during conditioning, process of moderate drying of solvent. To clarify the effect of solution concentration on the diffusion ...
The paper is concerned with timber constructions. The paper presents a solution of a rod deflection differential equation. The rod deflection equation describes a compressed rod to which a transverse force is ...
To elucidate the electroelastic field in bodies with D ∞ symmetry such as wooden materials, we constructed a general solution technique for electroelastic problems in such bodies in a cylindrical coordinate syste...
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) has recently emerged as a new wood product that utilizes a large quantity of domestic lumber. This study aims to analyze the effects of width and lay-ups on the tensile strength of...
Greenhouse gas (GHG: specifically CO2, CH4, and N2O) emissions over the life cycles of type no. 1 and no. 3 wooden guardrails widely used in Nagano Prefecture were evaluated. A comparison with steel (guardrail an...
In this study, highly oriented all-cellulose composite films were successfully prepared by mechanical drawing of water-swollen cellulose nanofibril/regenerated cellulose composite film, and their mechanical pr...
The economic benefits of the paper industry made it one of the most important industrial sectors in the world. This review will focus on the recent development of nanotechnology, in the context of additives us...
Owing to an unfortunate oversight on the part of Publisher, Figs. 3 and 5 were published with errors in the initial publication of the article. The corrected Figs. 3 and 5 are published with this erratum.
The original article was published in Journal of Wood Science 2015 62:s10086-015-1523-6
This study aimed to investigate the production of dissolving pulp (DP) from empty fruit bunch (EFB) of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) as a non-wood material using a combination of prehydrolysis, soda-anthraquinone ...
In order to apply acoustic emission (AE) monitoring to the non-destructive and continuous analysis of the feeding biology of the bamboo powder-post beetle Dinoderus minutus inside bamboo culms, it is essential to...
Thermal conductivities (k-values) of cellulose fiber (CF) and wood shavings (WS) mats were measured, and the density dependence of k-values in the ranges 28–60 and 60–100 kg/m3 for CF mats and WS mats, respective...
The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Wood Science 2015 62:s10086-015-1529-0
The endogenous soluble sugars and starch are the main carbohydrates accumulated in bamboo culms and the seasonal changes of their contents are also related to the bamboo phenology. In this study, it is observe...
Bamboo is a composite material reinforced axially by fibers called vascular bundles. In this paper, the mechanical stripping method was used to isolate vascular bundles from moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), Ch...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the standard values of living, undamaged iron-wood (Casuarina equisetifolia) trees by different nondestructive techniques. This study also detects the transversal stre...
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of specimen size on the mechanical properties of bamboo. Single bamboo fibers and bamboo fiber bundles obtained from both chemical retting and mechanic...
The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Wood Science 2016 62:s10086-016-1537-8
The aim of this paper was to study effect of transparent and pigmented vegetable oils on the colour stability of selected tropical woods during their natural and artificial weathering. The surfaces of four tro...
Cellulose aerogel is a kind of ultra-light solid material which resulting from natural cellulose materials, and its performance is highly related to its structure. In this study, we prepared cellulose aerogels...
The dependence of the elastic modulus and the longitudinal contraction on the NaOH fractional concentration [NaOH], which differs from each other, was discussed based on a quantitative model analysis using the...
In order to explore bamboo glulam utilization in structure construction, the adhesive bonded steel connection of bamboo glulam was investigated in this study. By carrying out both-end pullout tests on glued-in...
Bio-coke (BIC) is drawing attention as a coal-coke substitute in industry. Though BIC can be used as a carbon-neutral fuel, its overall benefits, including the environmental impacts associated with its product...
The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Wood Science 2016 62:s10086-016-1542-y
For the purpose of technology development to control the humidity conditioning performance of slit material made from Japanese cedar, the effects of the groove shape of slit samples, air convection, and heat t...
The original article was published in Journal of Wood Science 2015 61:s10086-015-1498-3
The structure and biosynthesis of lignin are not yet fully understood, especially the step following the initial dimerization of monolignol. Liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer (LC–MS) was used to analyze t...
The identification of wood species used in the cultural artifacts is important in terms of their preservation and inheritance. However, a nondestructive method is required, and wood samples must be partly cut ...
The multi-spot pressure tensioning process of circular saw blade was built by dynamic/explicit solution module of the finite element software called ABAQUS for avoiding non-convergence and improving the comput...
This research was aimed at determining the surface roughness and surface brightness properties of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) wood samples to which water-based varnishes were applied after thermo-mechanical ...
This study focused on solute diffusing into cell walls in solution-impregnated wood under conditioning. The purpose of this paper was to clarify the effect of relative humidity (RH) of the conditioning on solu...
Bamboo is a fiber-reinforced bio-composite with superior structural behavior. The hollow structure as well as the gradient distribution of bamboo fiber is the embodiment of the superior bamboo construction. To...
A life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas (GHG: CO2, CH4, N2O) emissions for woodchip-paved walkways using tsunami salt-damaged wood was conducted in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. The GHG emissions for woodchip-pave...
Phenol–formaldehyde resin-bonded particleboard (PF board), methylene diphenyl diisocyanate resin-bonded particleboard (MDI board), aspen oriented strand board (aspen board), Scots pine oriented strand board (p...
The difference in decomposition behavior of lignin from Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) as softwood and Japanese beech (Fagus crenata) as hardwood treated by hot-compressed water was investigated. The obtai...
Lateral tensile deformation properties of wood were studied to clarify the tensile deformation properties of wood with drying and/or quenching histories, and it was discussed whether giving these histories was...
The inherent variability of wood material together with sub-optimization in production processes means that a lot of potential value is lost. Computed tomography scanning together with simulation models of the...
We examined how the stereo-configurational difference affects the reaction of a carbohydrate model compound with active oxygen species (AOS) generated in situ by reactions between O2 and a phenolic compound under...
Timber joints used in traditional Japanese constructions have no metal plates or fasteners. Because these joints resist external force by embedment to each member, they show high ductility. The ductile joints ...
The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Wood Science 2015 61:s10086-015-1509-4
The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Wood Science 2019 65:13
This article summarizes current utilizations of wood cell wall components in relation to biorefinery of woody biomass as a separation method of its constituents. Especially, utilization of isolated lignins, in...
Wood-based materials are widely used in residential construction. These materials can be made from virgin or recycled wood, and most of the materials are fabricated with chemical adhesives. Finding replacement...
The dynamic viscoelastic properties of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) with a moisture content of 10.65 % (30 °C, 58 % RH) under cyclical relative humidity (RH) variation (90–10 % RH) were examined. After s...
We investigated the changes in cellulose crystallinity in the cell walls of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens Mazel) during the growth process. Changes in crystallinity in bamboo cell walls were traced along t...
Several C6–C3 and C6–C2-type dimeric non-phenolic β-O-4 lignin model compounds, whose aromatic nuclei consisting of the carbon skeleton and β-O-4 linkage are named the A- and B-rings, respectively, were treated u...
In deciduous ring-porous hardwoods, three-dimensional networks of the current year’s earlywood vessels play an important role in the movement of water. In the present study, we analyzed the formation of earlyw...
In this study, we observed the rhizome and root anatomy of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) with scanning electron microscopy compared with the anatomy of the culm. The epidermis of culm, rhizome, and root w...
In this article, quantitative determination of compositions (hemicellulose and lignin) in the APMP (alkaline peroxide mechanical pulping) effluent was done. The MTBE (methyl tert-butyl ether) extracts of the A...
This article describes drying of wood cut into parallelepiped shaped pieces. A one-dimensional numerical solution of the diffusion equation with boundary condition of the third kind was proposed to describe th...
Sugi (Japanese cedar: Cryptomeria japonica) is the most important afforestation species in Japan. Its growing stock has been increasing year by year. Thus, development of new wood products made of sugi has been a...
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