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- Title
DECAY AND TERMITE RESISTANCE OF PARTICLEBOARD MANUFACTURED FROM WOOD, BAMBOO AND RICE HUSK.
- Authors
de Melo, Rafael Rodolfo; Martins Stangerlin, Diego; Campomanes Santana, Ricardo Robinson; Dantas Pedrosa, Talita
- Abstract
The resistance of particleboards, made from wood, bamboo and rice husk, to fungi and termites was evaluated. Panels were composed of 100% wood (Eucalyptus grandis), 100% bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris), 100% rice husk (Oryza sativa), 50% wood and 50% bamboo; and 50% wood and 50% rice husk. Panels exposed to the decay the brown-rot fungus (Gloeophyllum trabeum, and the white-rot fungus (Trametes versicolor), and, in a choice feeding trial, to termites (Nasutitermes corniger). The rice husk particleboards had the highest resistance of all samples and the bamboo particleboards had the lowest resistance. T. versicolor fungi produced a larger mass loss in the particleboards than did G. trabeum.
- Subjects
TERMITES; PARTICLE board; EUCALYPTUS grandis; BAMBUSA; RICE hulls; WOOD-decaying fungi
- Publication
Maderas: Ciencia y Tecnología, 2015, Vol 17, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0717-3644
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4067/S0718-221X2015005000006