Particle Board and Oriented Strand Board Prepared with Nanocellulose-Reinforced Adhesive

Prepared for California Air Resources Board Prepared

A condensed version of the SAPRC-07 mechanism (Carter, 2008) was implemented in a 3-D air quality model and applied to the Los Angeles area as part of the present review. The CIT airshed model was used; see Martien et al. (2003 and 2006) for description of model input data. The summer 1997 emission inventory was used here. Martien et al. used an extended version of SAPRC-99 that had many indivi...

Decay Resistance of Bamboo Oriented Strand Board Pretreated with Copper-based Preservatives

To enhance the decay resistance of bamboo oriented strand board (OSB) products, the strands were dipped in solutions of alkaline copper quat (ACQ) and copper azole (CA) and bonded with phenol formaldehyde resin into two types of OSB panels, i.e., panels with 100% treated strands and those with treated strands only in the face layers. The results indicated that the decay resistance of treated pa...

Numerical Modeling and Experiments on the Role of Strand-to-Strand Interface Quality on the Properties of Oriented Strand Board

This paper discusses numerical modeling and experimental results on stress transfer in wood composites. The numerical model treats adhesive bonds using the concept of an imperfect interface. The displacement discontinuity at an imperfect interface is proportional to the tractions at the interface. A stiff interface will result in little discontinuity and maximum translation of wood component me...

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