Deterioration of wood-based boards subjected to outdoor exposure in Tsukuba
Various types of wood-based boards were analyzed for deterioration after being exposed to an outdoor environment for 5 years in Tsukuba, Japan. In phenol–formaldehyde resin bonded particleboard (PB(PF)) and aspen oriented strand board (OSB(aspen)), longer exposure caused a greater reduction in the modulus of rupture and internal bond strength, an increase in the coefficients of variation, and a decrease in 95 % lower tolerance limit at the 75 % confidence level (95TL). Nail-head pull-through and lateral nail resistance were also reduced by outdoor exposure, but their coefficients of variation and 95TL were not significantly affected. In contrast, methylene diphenyl diisocyanate bonded medium density fiberboard (MDF(MDI)) only showed a slight deterioration of these properties even after 5-year exposure, and the coefficients of variation and 95TL hardly changed. After 5-year exposure, the retention of shear load in one-plane at relative displacement of 1.0 mm was high in MDF(MDI) and OSB(aspen) at 93.5 and 78.5 %, respectively, but low in PB(PF) at 41.1 %. As with PB(PF), OSB(aspen) also showed a sharp decrease in the modulus of rupture and internal bond strength, but only slightly reduced shear load in one-plane.
Evaluation of particleboard deterioration under outdoor exposure using several different types of weathering intensity
The deterioration of particleboards for construction use was investigated by outdoor exposure tests at eight sites in Japan over 7 years. Two types of particleboard with different water resistances were tested and the deterioration of mechanical properties such as modulus of rupture, internal bond strength and lateral nail resistance was investigated. In order to eliminate regional differences in the board deterioration and also to standardize a deterioration factor for the board exposed to varying climate conditions, we introduced the weathering intensity (WI) defined by monthly precipitation multiplied by monthly average temperature. The significance of this factor was investigated by correlation analysis. Three conventional climate indexes relevant to the durability of wood were also investigated to analyze their significance to WI for particleboard deterioration. It was found that our definition of weathering intensity was the most accurate and the exposure period that reduces initial bending strength by half was calculated by the use of regression analysis for several different sites worldwide.
Performance of southern OSB overlaid with resin-impregnated paper.
Etude experimentale des proprietes physicomecaniques de panneaux de lamelles orientees fabriquees a partir d'un melange de pin et de bois feuillus de densite moyenne et revetus de papier impregne de resine phenolique. On etudie egalement la resistance aux intemperies et les possibilites de protection par des primaires et peintures