Effect of Boron Compounds on Properties of Chinese Fir Wood Treated with PMUF Resin
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Abstract: Plantation Chinese fir wood was modified by low molecular weight phenol melamine urea formaldehyde (PMUF) resin and boron compounds (BB) through a progressive gradual infiltration process. The results showed that the limiting oxygen index (LOI) values, density, dimensional stability and static flexural properties of the PMUF resin treated wood gradually improved with the increase of resin solid content. When boron compounds were additionally introduced into the PMUF resin, the density and the LOI values of the samples of compound modification increased, whereas the anti-swelling efficiency, the modulus of rupture and impact toughness decreased by more than 17.6%, 10.1% and 42.9%, respectively. It was demonstrated by X-ray diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy that boron compounds could improve the crystallinity of resin modified samples and did not have a chemical reaction with resin or wood. Scanning electron microscope analysis indicated boron compounds made the microstructure of the resin polymers loose, influencing the mechanical properties and dimensional stability of resin modified wood.
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Key words:
- wood /
- resin /
- boron compounds /
- dimensional stability /
- mechanical properties
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Table 1. Physical properties of untreated and modified wood samples
Sample PMUF (wt%) BA+BX (wt%) AD (%) WPG (%) Density (g/cm3) Untreated 0 0 - - 0.366±0.016 BB 0 6 225.5±8.6 9.2±0.5 0.401±0.015 P10 10 0 253.5±10.3 29.5±1.3 0.435±0.014 P20 20 0 261.7±13.9 59.6±2.9 0.529±0.013 P30 30 0 255.1±10.2 79.0±2.9 0.602±0.010 PB10 10 6 259.2±11.3 37.2±1.6 0.467±0.010 PB20 20 6 267.9±14.3 66.3±3.4 0.557±0.010 PB30 30 6 253.2±11.7 88.3±3.7 0.643±0.017 Notes: BA+BX is 2% boric acid + 4% borax; AD is absorption dose; WPG is weight percent gain; BB is boron compounds modified; P10, P20 and P30 are 10%, 20% and 30% solid content PMUF modified; PB10, PB20 and PB30 are 10%, 20% and 30% solid content PMUF with boron compounds modified. The same below. -
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