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Investigación Agraria
On-line version ISSN 2305-0683
Abstract
SOTOMAYOR CASTELLANOS, Javier Ramón; ADACHI, Koji; IIDA, Ryuichi and HAYASHI, Tomoyuki. Geometric recovery by humidification of densified wood of eight Mexican species. Investig. Agrar. [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.2, pp.73-80. ISSN 2305-0683. https://doi.org/10.18004/investig.agrar.2021.diciembre.2302709.
The densification of the wood improves its hygroscopic properties; however, if the densified wood is exposed to moisture, it tends to regain its original shape. The research, with a comparative approach, aimed to determine the geometric recoveries of densified wood and to determine the radial hygroexpansions of solid wood of eight Mexican species: Cupressus lindleyi, Cedrela odorata, Swietenia macrophylla, Tabebuia donnell-smithii, Fraxinus uhdei, Fagus mexicana, Dalbergia palo-escrito and Guazuma ulmifolia. For this, a densification treatment was applied to wood of these species and later they were humidified to observe their hygroexpansions. The mean values of geometric recovery and radial hygroexpansion of the woods C. lindleyi, C. odorata, T. donnell-smithii, F. uhdei, F. mexicana, and G. ulmifolia increase as their densities increase (αR = 0,0095 ρCH - 2,66; R2 = 0,79). Different cases are the woods S. macrophylla and D. palo-escrito, for which the geometric recovery and radial hygroexpansion are comparatively lower than the other species. It is concluded that the average values of the geometric recovery and of the radial hygroexpansion of the woods C. lindleyi, C. odorata, T. donnell-smithii, F. uhdei, F. mexicana, and G. ulmifolia increase as their densities increase. On the other hand, for S. macrophylla and D. palo-escrito, geometric recovery and radial hygroexpansion are comparatively lower than the other species. Likewise, for the eight species studied, the geometric recovery of the densified wood is greater than the radial hygroexpansion of the non-densified wood. In the opposite sense, the coefficient of variation of the geometric recovery of densified wood is lower than that of non-densified wood. The values are different for each species, but their magnitudes are positioned close to the statistical trends obtained by other researchers.
Keywords : wood moisture; wood density; wood hygroexpansion.
