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Effect of Cyclic Moisture Content Changes on Shrinkage and Thermal Conductivity in Domestic Quercus acutissima Carr. and Larix Kaempferi Carr.  

Mun, Sung-Hee (College of Forestry, Kookmin Univ.)
Cha, Jae-Kyung (College of Forestry, Kookmin Univ.)
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Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology / v.30, no.4, 2002 , pp. 41-50 More about this Journal
Abstract
Small clear specimens of Quercus acutissima Carr. and Larix caempferi Carr. were used to measure shrinkage and thermal conductivity for the reasonable and effective use. All samples were conditioned to 18, 12, 5% moisture contents in a humidity chamber of 86, 66, 20% relative humidity(RH), respectively and room temperature(23℃) All specimens were conducted on the shrinkage and thermal conductivity test at each MCs. These processes(cycle) were repeated three times. The radial and tangential shrinkages of Quercus acutissima Carr. and Larix caempferi Carr. decreased at each level of MCs, with the increasing cycles. The radial and tangential shrinkages increased as the specific gravity(on oven-dry weight and volume basis) increased. Thermal conductivities of the radial and tangential direction of Quercus acutissima Carr. and Larix caempferi Carr. increased at each levels of MCs, with increasing cycles. Good correlations were obtained between shrinkages and thermal conductivities of radial and tangential direction, and specific gravity (on oven-dry weight and oven-dry volume basis) and MC.
Keywords
Larix caempferi Carr.; Quercus acutissima Carr.; moisture content (MC); shrinkage; specific gravity (SG); thermal conductivity;
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