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Properties of particleboard produced from admixture of rubberwood and Mahang species

Particleboard is one of the major timber products exported from Peninsular Malaysia. Apparently, the increasing price and lack of supply of rubberwood has forced the particleboard manufacturers to look for new alternative raw material to produce particleboard. Hence, the production of particleboard...

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Main Authors: Loh, Yang Way, H'ng, Paik San, Lee, Seng Hua, Lum, Wei Chen, Tan, Chun Knee
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Published: Knowledgia Review, Malaysia 2010
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16372/1/16372.pdf
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http://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ajaps.2010.310.316
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spelling my.upm.eprints.163722017-10-23T09:55:15Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16372/ Properties of particleboard produced from admixture of rubberwood and Mahang species Loh, Yang Way H'ng, Paik San Lee, Seng Hua Lum, Wei Chen Tan, Chun Knee Particleboard is one of the major timber products exported from Peninsular Malaysia. Apparently, the increasing price and lack of supply of rubberwood has forced the particleboard manufacturers to look for new alternative raw material to produce particleboard. Hence, the production of particleboard through mixture of fast-growing wood species will be a good solution to the depleting wood supply issue. The objective of this study was to investigate the physical and mechanical properties of particleboard produced from admixtures of rubberwood and Mahang at different proportion levels and the properties were evaluated based on the Japanese Industrial Standard for particleboard (JIS A 5908-1994). The physical and mechanical data presented here, were analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Least Significant Difference (LSD), to determine the significant differences of the variables. From the study, an increase in density resulted in increase of thickness swelling of particleboard. In addition, the water absorption for particleboard with density 500 kg m-3 was higher. For bending properties, admixture particleboard of rubberwood and Mahang had significantly lower wet and dry bending property. In terms of internal bond strength, decrease in rubberwood proportion resulted in decrease in the internal bonding strength of the particleboard. Knowledgia Review, Malaysia 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16372/1/16372.pdf Loh, Yang Way and H'ng, Paik San and Lee, Seng Hua and Lum, Wei Chen and Tan, Chun Knee (2010) Properties of particleboard produced from admixture of rubberwood and Mahang species. Asian Journal of Applied Sciences, 3 (5). pp. 310-316. ISSN 1996-3343 http://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ajaps.2010.310.316 10.3923/ajaps.2010.310.316
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description Particleboard is one of the major timber products exported from Peninsular Malaysia. Apparently, the increasing price and lack of supply of rubberwood has forced the particleboard manufacturers to look for new alternative raw material to produce particleboard. Hence, the production of particleboard through mixture of fast-growing wood species will be a good solution to the depleting wood supply issue. The objective of this study was to investigate the physical and mechanical properties of particleboard produced from admixtures of rubberwood and Mahang at different proportion levels and the properties were evaluated based on the Japanese Industrial Standard for particleboard (JIS A 5908-1994). The physical and mechanical data presented here, were analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Least Significant Difference (LSD), to determine the significant differences of the variables. From the study, an increase in density resulted in increase of thickness swelling of particleboard. In addition, the water absorption for particleboard with density 500 kg m-3 was higher. For bending properties, admixture particleboard of rubberwood and Mahang had significantly lower wet and dry bending property. In terms of internal bond strength, decrease in rubberwood proportion resulted in decrease in the internal bonding strength of the particleboard.
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author Loh, Yang Way
H'ng, Paik San
Lee, Seng Hua
Lum, Wei Chen
Tan, Chun Knee
spellingShingle Loh, Yang Way
H'ng, Paik San
Lee, Seng Hua
Lum, Wei Chen
Tan, Chun Knee
Properties of particleboard produced from admixture of rubberwood and Mahang species
author_facet Loh, Yang Way
H'ng, Paik San
Lee, Seng Hua
Lum, Wei Chen
Tan, Chun Knee
author_sort Loh, Yang Way
title Properties of particleboard produced from admixture of rubberwood and Mahang species
title_short Properties of particleboard produced from admixture of rubberwood and Mahang species
title_full Properties of particleboard produced from admixture of rubberwood and Mahang species
title_fullStr Properties of particleboard produced from admixture of rubberwood and Mahang species
title_full_unstemmed Properties of particleboard produced from admixture of rubberwood and Mahang species
title_sort properties of particleboard produced from admixture of rubberwood and mahang species
publisher Knowledgia Review, Malaysia
publishDate 2010
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16372/1/16372.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16372/
http://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ajaps.2010.310.316
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