Lignin was used as a natural adhesive to manufacture Vitis vinifera fiberboards. The fiberboards were produced at laboratory scale by adding powdered lignin to material that had previously been steamexploded under optimized pretreatment and pressing conditions. The kraft lignin used was washed several times with an acidic solution to eliminate any contaminants and low molecular weight compounds...

Wood I-joists are often left uncovered and exposed to the weather during construction, allowing the oriented strandboard and laminated veneer lumber in these systems to be adversely affected by water absorption. Manufacturers typically specify that these materials be protected from wetting, but this can be difficult in wetter climates. There are few studies examining the potential effects of we...

The aim of the paper was to examine the application of regenerated cellulose fibers as a reinforcement material in particleboard production. Single-layer, 10 mm thick panels, with the density of 800 kg/m3 were produced with addition of regenerated cellulose fibers in the range of 0 do 15% by mass during panels’ production. The mechanical and physical parameters of the produced panels were teste...

MTMoCr is a kind of Mo-Cr alloy cast iron often used to make automobile panel dies. To study high-speed machining process of automobile panel dies, the material’s elastic modulus and rupture critical values of MTMoCr at 20 -800 were studied based on the high temperature elongation test. The material’s stress-strain diagram at various temperatures set-points (20 -500 ) and various strain-rates (...

This paper presents the results of a Forest Products Laboratory study regarding the effects of resin content, particle size, and molding pressure upon specific gravity, strength, and water absorption of hardboard products made of wood waste treated with powdered phenolic resin. Modulus of rupture in bending was found to vary approximately as the cube of specific gravity, whereas water absorptio...

In this work, the influence of crystallographic texture on mechanical properties was investigated by X-ray diffraction in the superelastic Ti-24Nb-4Zr-8Sn alloy. Different textures were obtained by changing the cold rolling reduction rate and the following thermal treatment (solution treatment or flash thermal treatment). The tensile tests performed show that Young’s modulus, elongation at rupt...

– Slow crack growth in a model of homogenous brittle elastic material is described as a thermal activation process where stress fluctuations allow to overcome a breaking threshold through a series of irreversible steps. We study the case of a single crack in a flat sheet for which analytical predictions can be made, and compare them with results from the equivalent problem of a 2D spring networ...