Museu D.

Diogo de Sousa, Braga, Portugal, 5-

7 November 2008

Parallel session 2 (WG2) Strength of Aged Load Bearing

Structures // POSTER N° 8

Creep properties of heat

treated wood in radial
direction.
PhD student

Julien COLMARS
Université Montpellier 2 -
CNRS
Laboratoire de Mécanique et
Génie Civil
Equipe Mécanique de l’Arbre
Introduction
Background:
Heat treatment was used in previous studies as an ‘accelerated
ageing’ and showed so far good results on different softwood with
respect to the darker color, fragile behavior and the improved stability
against humidity changes.

Our objective:
Determine the effect of heat treatment on creep behavior of
hardwood, such as Poplar wood, in transverse direction (literature
is mainly focused on longitudinal direction). These choices were
motivated by our previous work on panel paintings (COST IE0601
Florence 2007).

Host institute & Funding:

This study was conducted in Kyoto University thanks to the
Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Material & Method
Creep tests on Italian Poplar Thickness
samples 1.6mm
in Radial direction Width 10mm
Length
Heat60mm
treatment
No treatment (150°C, 24
hours)
Saturated solutions: Relative
Humidity
11,22,43,53,62,75,84,92,97% at Sorption
24°C Isotherm
10 days conditioning es

3 points bending
Creep Tests (10 hours)
At constant humidity
(22,62,84,92,97%)
Discussion
Influence of moisture content in service (even constant mc%)
on creep behavior of both treated and untreated poplar.

Chemical modification of wood during heat treatment and its

effects on creep properties.

Discussion about post treatment methods for analyzing the

results (Time response spectrum, Approximate Complex
Plane…).

Special Acknowledgements:
To Miyuki MATSUO and Misao YOKOYAMA from RISH (Kyoto
University) for the discussions about heat treatment. Thanks to Luca
UZIELLI for providing the material of this study, and Bertrand
MARCON for preparing and deliver it...
Thank you for your
attention