INFLUENCE OF THE PATHOLOGICAL DRYING OF PEDUNCULATE OAK WOOD (Quercus robur L.) UPON ITS STRUCTURE

Dumitru LICA
Assist.Prof.dr.eng. - Universitatea "Transilvania" Brasov- Facultatea Industria Lemnului
Address: Str. B-dul Eroilor, nr. 29, 500036 Brasov
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E-mail: cboieriu@unitbv.ro

Camelia COSEREANU
Lecturer dr.eng. - Universitatea "Transilvania" Brasov- Facultatea Industria Lemnului
Address: Str. B-dul Eroilor, nr. 29, 500036 Brasov
Tel: 0040 268 415315, Fax: 0040 268 415315
E-mail: cboieriu@unitbv.ro

Abstract: Oak wood is one of the most spread wood species in Europa, being met from North to South from Norway to Sicily, and from West to East from the United Kingdom to the Ural Mountains. In Romania, the first signals about the pathological drying of oak trees appeared starting with 1910 in the Banat region, more exactly between Lugoj and Caransebes. The most affected species of oak are the pedunculate oak and the sessile oak. These are species with a nice appearance, used on a large scale in furniture manufacturing. Considering that the furniture must fulfill several conditions: aesthetical, functional and safety ones, the necessity of determining the influence of the pathological drying degree of pedunculate oak wood upon its structure and properties became obvious. The pedunculate oak wood has a complex structure, because of the numerous cells and their disposal. The research work on this topic has shown that the wood structure is not affected for the trees included in the first four degrees of pathological drying and so, these can be safely used in furniture manufacturing, both as solid wood and decorative veneer.

Key words: pedunculate oak, pathological drying, wood structure.

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