@article{Cesar Batista_Tarcísio da Silva Oliveira_Benigno Paes_Nisgoski_Ines Bolzón de Muñiz_2018, title={Effect of the Brazilian process of thermal modification on the physical properties of Eucalyptus grandis juvenile wood}, volume={20}, url={https://revistas.ubiobio.cl/index.php/MCT/article/view/3270}, abstractNote={<p>This study is a continuation of a previous study published in this journal, with the aim of evaluating the effect of the Brazilian industrial thermal modification process on some physical properties of <em>Eucalyptus grandis</em> juvenile wood. Flatsawn boards of juvenile wood were tested for four treatment levels: untreated and thermally modified wood at final cycle temperatures of 140 °C, 160 °C and 180 °C. Physical properties were assessed according to a standard of the Comisión Panamericana de Normas Técnicas and a method proposed by the specialized literature encompassing equilibrium moisture content (a measure of wood’s hygroscopicity), density (oven-dried and air-dried) and radial, tangential and volumetric swelling (from oven-dried to green moisture content). Thermally modified <em>Eucalyptus grandis</em> wood became less hygroscopic, more dimensionally stable (tangential and volumetric swelling) and less dense, even at the lowest temperature tested (140 °C), except for radial swelling, which did not differ from untreated wood.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Maderas-Cienc Tecnol}, author={Cesar Batista, Djeison and Tarcísio da Silva Oliveira, José and Benigno Paes, Juarez and Nisgoski, Silvana and Ines Bolzón de Muñiz, Graciela}, year={2018}, month={Oct.}, pages={715–724} }