Journal of Wood Science

, Volume 63, Issue 3, pp 288–294 | Cite as

Characterization and photodegradation mechanism of three Algerian wood species

  • Yasmina Ouadou
  • Djamel Aliouche
  • Marie-France Thevenon
  • Mohamed Djillali
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Abstract

Aging is the irreversible change of mechanical, physical, and chemical properties of materials; the main objective of this work was to study the photochemical degradation and structural changes of three major Algerian wood species. For this, we evaluated the photodegradation mechanism for Maritime Pine (Pinus pinaster), zeen oak (Quercus canariensis), and afares oak (Quercus afares) by accelerated aging in a Xenon test chamber. Degradation of the samples was established by an initial color change (after 30 h exposure), followed by roughening and cracking (120 h exposure) as translated by scanning electron microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The discoloration of irradiated wood samples was primarily related to the decomposition of lignin which is the key structure in wood photodegradation. As expected, a decrease in mechanical properties was observed; for all samples, the modulus of elasticity decreased after aging, indicating that the wood specimens loss some of their stiffness.

Keywords

Zeen oak Afares oak Maritime pine Photodegradation UV accelerated aging 
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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank IBDM France (especially SEM team unit) and staff of the wood processing company (TRANSbois) in Algeria.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Yasmina Ouadou
    • 1
    • 2
  • Djamel Aliouche
    • 1
  • Marie-France Thevenon
    • 3
  • Mohamed Djillali
    • 4
  1. 1.Laboratory of Polymers Treatment and FormingUniversity M’Hamed BougaraBoumerdesAlgeria
  2. 2.Research Unit of Materials, Processes and EnvironmentFaculty of Science Engineering, M’Hamed Bougara University of BoumerdesBoumerdesAlgeria
  3. 3.Research Unit, BioWooEB, TAB-114/16, CIRADMontpellier Cedex 5France
  4. 4.National Center for Textile and LeatherBoumerdesAlgeria

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