A test chamber method was developed to provide a small and simple emission testing facility capable of testing construction products over a range of climatic parameters, such as temperature, ventilation rate and air velocity, that could be varied independently around typical indoor values. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), specifically the aromatic hydrocarbons fraction, were measured using a ...

Evaluations of products based on visual stimuli are at the same time both subjective and important. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the visual properties of wood flooring and people’s reactions to computer visualization of interior wood products. The research strategy involved showing digital pictures of the same room, but with different wood floorings. The impress...

Purpose This article will select 25 years of subdivided data to perform Kaplan–Meier survival analysis on the export trade relations Chinese wooden flooring, use discrete-time cloglog models analyze influencing factors, logit and probit test robustness, try systematically reveal duration China's wood flooring its factors. Design/methodology/approach study used function estimation method. In ana...

Densification is one method used to modify low-density woods make them achieve the hardness required for flooring application. The purpose of this study was investigate effect thermo-mechanical densification with pre-heating in wood Alnus acuminata, Vochysia ferruginea and guatemalensis from, seeking stabilize reduce spring-back densified evaluate its performance applications. results showed th...

In this study, the impact factors of temperature, relative humidity (RH), air exchange rate, and volatile organic compound (VOC) properties on the VOC (toluene, n-butyl acetate, ethylbenzene, and m,p-xylene) specific emission rates (SERs) and concentrations from wooden flooring were investigated by chamber test for 8 days. The tested wood in this study is not common solid wood, but composite wo...

BACKGROUND hospital falls place a substantial burden on healthcare systems. There has been limited research into the use of hospital flooring as an intervention against fall-related injuries. OBJECTIVE to assess the cost-effectiveness of shock-absorbing flooring compared with standard hospital flooring in hospital wards for older people. DESIGN a cost-utility analysis was undertaken drawing...

BACKGROUND Compliant flooring, broadly defined as flooring systems or floor coverings with some level of shock absorbency, may reduce the incidence and severity of fall-related injuries in older adults; however, a lack of synthesized evidence may be limiting widespread uptake. METHODS Informed by the Arksey and O'Malley framework and guided by a Research Advisory Panel of knowledge users, we ...

In this article, we present cradle-to-gate life-cycle inventory (LCI) data for wood fuel pellets manufactured in the Southeast United States. We surveyed commercial pellet manufacturers in 2010, collecting annual production data for 2009. Weighted-average inputs to, and emissions from, the pelletization process were determined. The pellet making unit process was combined with existing LCI data ...