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Adam Beták, Jirí Zach, Petr Misák and Jan Vanerek
This experiment compared commercially available moisture meters (three capacitive metersand one resistance meter) and tested their predictive ability at different moisture conditions on selected beech (Fagus sylvatica) and spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst....
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Giulia Boccacci, Francesca Frasca, Chiara Bertolin and Anna Maria Siani
Among non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques applied to structural health monitoring in existing timber structures, ranging from visual inspection to more sophisticated analysis, acoustic emission (AE) is currently seldomly used to detect mechanical st...
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Maciej Sydor, Radoslaw Mirski, Kinga Stuper-Szablewska and Tomasz Rogozinski
We hypothesized that the type of wood, in combination with the grit size of sandpapers, would affect sanding efficiency. Fixed factors were used in the experiment (a belt sander with pressure p = 3828 Pa, and a belt speed of vs = 14.5 m/s) as well as var...
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Nirmal Ghimire, Rune Bakke and Wenche Hennie Bergland
Norway spruce (Picea abies) is an industrially important softwood species available in northern Europe and can be used to produce bio-methane after proper pretreatment to overcome its recalcitrant complex structure. Hot water extraction (HWE) pretreatmen...
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Arman Dastpak, Kirsi Yliniemi, Mariana Cecilio De Oliveira Monteiro, Sarah Höhn, Sannakaisa Virtanen, Mari Lundström and Benjamin P. Wilson
In this study, a waste of biorefinery—lignin—is investigated as an anticorrosion coating on stainless steel. Corrosion behavior of two lignin types (hardwood beech and softwood spruce) was studied by electrochemical measurements (linear sweep...
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Rajan Parajuli, Shaun Tanger, Omkar Joshi and James Henderson
The South-Central United States, which includes the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Arkansas, represents an important segment of the softwood sawtimber market. By using the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) method to account for the linka...
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Francisco Rodríguez,Iñigo Lizarralde,Felipe Bravo
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Aim of study: A stem taper function and a compatible merchantable volume system are compared to evaluate which provides a better description of the stem profile for the main species in central Spain.Area of study: This research was carried out in the reg...
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Javier de la Fuente-Leon,Edgar Lafuente-Jimenez,Daphne Hermosilla,Miguel Broto-Cartagena,Antonio Gasco
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Aim of study: Determining the main physical and mechanical properties of Spanish juniper wood from Soria (Spain) considering the effects of heartwood formation and the presence of defects and imperfections; and comparing the resulting characteristics wit...
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Teresa Duque Enes,Teresa Fidalgo Fonseca
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Aim of the study: The objective of this paper is to investigate the use of Biomass Conversion and Expansion Factors (BCEFs) in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) stands subjected to thinning.Area of the study: The study area refers to different ecosyste...
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Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado,Miren del Rio,Gregorio Montero
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Quantifying the carbon balance in forests is one of the main challenges in forest management. Forest carbon stocks are usually estimated indirectly through biomass equations applied to forest inventories, frequently considering different tree biomass com...
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