Influence of natural and artificial weathering on the colour change of different wood and wood-based materials

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

The importance of the aesthetic performance of wood is increasing and the colour is one of the most important parameters of aesthetics, hence the colour stability of twelve different wood-based materials was evaluated by several in-service and laboratory tests. The wood used for wooden façades and decking belongs to a group of severely exposed surfaces. Discolouration of wood in such applications is a long-known phenomenon, which is a result of different biotic and abiotic causes. The ongoing in-service trial started in October 2013, whilst a laboratory test mimicking seasonal exposure was performed in parallel. Samples were exposed to blue stain fungi (Aureobasidium pullulans and Dothichiza pithyophila) in a laboratory test according to the EN 152 procedure. Afterwards, the same samples were artificially weathered and re-exposed to the same blue stain fungi for the second time. The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the synergistic effect of weathering and staining. The broader aim of the study was to determine the correlation factors between artificial and natural weathering and to compare laboratory and field test data of fungal disfigurement of various bio-based materials. During the four years of exposure, the most prominent colour changes were determined on decking. Respective changes on the façade elements were significantly less prominent, being the lest evident on the south and east façade. The results showed that there are positive correlations between natural weathering and the combination of artificial weathering and blue staining. Hence, the artificial weathering of wood-based materials in the laboratory should consist of two steps, blue staining and artificial weathering, in order to simulate colour changes.

• Language: English
• Keywords: artificial weathering, blue staining fungi, colour change, natural weathering, wood
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2018
• Number of pages: 22 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 9, iss. 8, art. 488
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-131640
• UDC: 630*8
• ISSN on article: 1999-4907
• DOI: 10.3390/f9080488
• COBISS.SI-ID: 2933385
• Publication date in RUL: 30.09.2021

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
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• Licensing start date: 10.08.2018

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: umetno pospešeno staranje, glive modrivke, barvne spremembe, naravno staranje, les