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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2024, Vol. 60 ›› Issue (7): 105-116.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.LYKX20220705

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Shrinkage and Swelling Behavior of Different Types of Tissues in Catalpa bungei Wood

Fangyu Yin,Yamin Du,Zhu Li,Jiali Jiang*   

  1. Key Laboratory of Wood Science and Technology of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Research Institute of Wood Industry,Chinese Academy of Forestry Beijing 100091
  • Received:2022-10-20 Online:2024-07-25 Published:2024-08-19
  • Contact: Jiali Jiang

Abstract:

Objective: The adsorption-desorption isotherms and wood fiber tissue, wood ray and vessel dimension of change ratio of Catalpa bungei earlywood and latewood were real-timely and synchronously documented. This work aimed to reveal the pattern and interaction between the dimensional changes of different tissues of the earlywood and latewood. Method: The earlywood and latewood of the same growth ring in the heartwood of Catalpa bungei were studied using a dynamic vapor sorption analyzer combined with a video Dino X Lite Digital Microscope. The measurements were taken at a constant temperature of (25±0.1)℃, starting at 0% relative humidity (RH) and increasing in increments of 10% RH up to 95% RH, and then decreasing back to 0% RH also in 10% RH decrements. The each RH process was divided into the water vapor sorption period and equilibrium moisture content (EMC) constant period. During the water vapor sorption period, wood fiber tissue, wood ray and vessel dimensional change ratio and the sorption isotherm were synchronously measured. During the EMC constant period, whether there was hysteresis between“dimensional change behavior”and“EMC”or not was investigated. Result: 1) Throughout the moisture sorption process, both earlywood and latewood existed a significant hygroscopic hysteresis. The absolute hysteresis increased and then decreased with the increasing RH, reaching a maximum at the 70% RH level. Compare with earlywood, the absolute hysteresis of latewood was smaller. 2) The change ratio of wood fiber tissue dimension and wood ray dimension for both earlywood and latewood increased with increasing RH, while the change ratio of tangential diameter follow the opposite pattern of change with RH. The change ratio in tangential of earlywood and latewood at 95% RH was 0.945 and 0.918, respectively. 3) As the linear length (L) between the wood ray and the vessel increased, the change ratio of tangential dimension of wood ray decreased, and ceased to change after L≥200 μm, while the change ratio of longitudinal dimension of wood ray remained unchanged or changed minimally. At 95% RH, the maximum values of the change ratio in the tangential dimension of earlywood and latewood rays were 1.051 and 1.038, respectively. 4) In the process of moisture sorption cycle, the change ratio of three tissues dimension in both earlywood and latewood showed a significant swelling hysteresis, which increased first and then decreased with increasing RH, reached the maximum at 70% RH. 5) In the process of moisture adsorption-desorption, the dimensional change ratio of earlywood and latewood tissues“just reached the moisture content equilibrium state”was considered equivalent to the dimensional change ratio after“keeping the moisture content equilibrium state for 180 min”. Conclusion: The effect of lignin on absolute hysteresis was greater than that of hemicellulose. In the process of moisture adsorption, the swelling behavior of wood fiber tissue and wood rays compressed the vessel causing them to contrast, similarly, the vessel expanded due to the pull of wood fiber tissue and wood rays shrinkage during moisture desorption. The compressive and tensile forces exerted on the vessels by latewood tissue are greater than those exerted by earlywood tissue. Wood fiber tissue inhibited the swelling and shrinkage behavior of wood rays, with latewood wood fiber tissue inhibiting the tangential swelling and shrinkage behavior of wood rays more significantly than earlywood wood fiber tissue. The hygroscopic hysteresis behavior of wood is the one reason of the swelling hysteresis phenomenon. “EMC”and“the equilibrium of dimensional change”of the earlywood and latewood tissues were reached synchronously. It meant that there was not hysteresis between“dimensional change behavior”and“EMC”.

Key words: Catalpa bungei wood, earlywood tissue, latewood tissue, swelling and shrinkage, hysteresis

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