Wood Physical Properties

This lecture covers wood physical properties such as drying behavior, fiber saturation point in different wood species, dimensional stability estimation, relationship between relative humidity, equilibrium moisture content, and shrinkage, equilibrium moisture content in function of temperature and relative humidity, longitudinal, radial, and tangential shrinkage, swelling with water uptake under fiber saturation point, effect of pressure and tension on equilibrium moisture content, shrinkage in function of density, effect of moisture content on strength, equilibrium moisture content and shrinkage/swelling in Norway spruce, hygroscopicity modified by thermal treatments, thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, volumetric heat capacity, heat value, pyrolytic properties, and decay as a natural process.