La valutazione sperimentale dei consolidanti per il legno

Abstract

The aim of this work has been to test some commercial products as consolidants of the structure of two wooden species: poplar (Populus sp.) and walnut (Juglans regia L.). The chosen products are acrylic, epoxy and aliphatic compounds available in commerce and often employed for other applications. The wooden samples have been prepared according to the UNI ISO instructions. The wood characteristic parameters have been measured: density, basic density, shrinkage, porosity, colour. The wooden samples have been artificial aged by means of frost/thaw cycles. The consolidants have been applied to the wood samples aged and not by means of under vacuum immersion. At the end the wood characteristic parameters and the FTIR spectra have been measured to evaluate the product effectiveness for the wood treatment.