Moisture performance of façade elements made of thermally modified Norway spruce wood

Humar, Miha (author), Lesar, Boštjan (author), Kržišnik, Davor (author)

Wooden façades are gaining in importance. Thermally modified wood is becoming one of the preferred materials for claddings. In spite of the fact that façades made of thermally modified wood have been in use for more than two decades, reports about long-term monitoring have been sparse. The results of three-year monitoring of a façade made of thermally modified wood in Ljubljana are reported. Moisture content measurements of thermally modified façades were taken at 22 locations and compared to the moisture content of untreated Norway spruce wood. Temperature and relative humidity were recorded in parallel. The moisture content of the wood was compared to the average relative humidity before the measurements. The results confirm the lower moisture content of thermally modified wood in comparison to reference Norway spruce. The moisture content of the wooden façade could be best correlated with the average relative humidity and temperature 48 h before the wood moisture content measurement was taken.

• Language: English
• Keywords: thermally modified wood, cladding, performance, sorption properties, water exclusion efficacy
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 13 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 11, iss. 3, art. 348
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-133402
• UDC: 630*8
• ISSN on article: 1999-4907
• DOI: 10.3390/f11030348
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3181193
• Publication date in RUL: 25.11.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Forests
• Shortened title: Forests
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1999-4907
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3872166

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 20.03.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: termično modificiran les, fasadne obloge, obnašanje, sorpcijske lastnosti, odpornost proti navlaževanju