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OSB as substrate for engineered wood flooring

OSB als Trägerplatte für Doppelböden

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Oriented strand board (OSB) is a commodity product subject to market fluctuation. Development of a specialty OSB could lead to a better, and more stable, market segment for OSB. It was demonstrated in a previous study (Barbuta et al. in Eur. J. Wood Prod. 2010), that OSB may be designed to obtain a high bending modulus of elasticity in the parallel direction, close to Baltic Birch Plywood (BBP) in its strongest direction. This study focused on the use of such specialty OSB in the manufacturing of engineered wood flooring (EWF) prototypes, a product that widely uses BBP as substrate in Canada. The performance of these two prototypes (aspen/birch and ponderosa pine) was studied. Five types of substrates: BBP, sheathing OSB, web stock OSB and the two specialty OSB prototypes were used to manufacture EWF. A 3-mm thick sugar maple plank was selected as the surface layer for all constructions. A polyvinyl acetate (PVA) type I adhesive was used to bond the components. The tests in conditioning rooms showed that BBP substrate constructions present the lowest distortion between humid and dry conditions as well as aspen/birch specialty OSB, according to ANOVA. The construction with OSB sheathing, OSB web stock and ponderosa pine OSB substrates showed higher distortion. The PVA type I adhesive led to weak bonding with high-density OSB surface. The results of this study demonstrate the potential of OSB panels to be used as substrate for EWF.

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OSB ist ein Massenprodukt, das Marktschwankungen unterliegt. Die Entwicklung spezieller OSB-Platten könnte zu besseren und stabileren Absatzmöglichkeiten für OSB führen. In einer früheren Studie (Barbuta et al. Eur. J. Wood Prod. 2010) wurde die Möglichkeit aufgezeigt, OSB herzustellen, dessen Biege-Elastizitätsmodul in Faserrichtung nahezu gleich dem von Birkensperrholz (BBP) in seiner stärksten Richtung ist.

In der vorliegenden Studie wird die Verwendung von speziellen OSB zur Herstellung von Doppelböden (EWF) untersucht, für die in Kanada überwiegend BBP als Trägerplatte verwendet wird. Die Eigenschaften von zwei Prototypen (Espe/Birke und Ponderosa Kiefer) wurden untersucht. Zur Herstellung der Doppelböden wurden fünf verschiedene Trägerplattentypen verwendet, nämlich BBP, OSB für Wand- und Deckenelemente, OSB für Stege von I-Trägern und die zwei speziellen OSB-Prototypen. Für alle Konstruktionstypen wurde eine 3 mm dicke Deckschicht aus Zuckerahorn ausgewählt. Zur Verklebung der Komponenten wurde Polyvinylacetat (PVA) vom Typ I verwendet. Klimatisierungsversuche zeigten gemäß ANOVA, dass sich bei Prüfkörpern mit BBP als Trägerplatte sowie bei speziellen OSB aus Espe/Birken-Mischung die geringsten Formänderungen zwischen feuchten und trockenen Bedingungen ergaben. Bei den anderen Prüfkörpern ergaben sich größere Formänderungen. Der PVA-Klebstoff vom Typ I führte zu einer schlechten Verklebung bei OSB-Oberflächen hoher Dichte. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie belegen das Potential von OSB-Platten für Trägerplatten von Doppelböden.

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  1. Sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

    Costel Barbuta, Pierre Blanchet & Alain Cloutier

  2. Value-added wood products, FPInnovations, Québec, QC, Canada

    Pierre Blanchet

  3. Wood Material and Engineering Laboratory, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

    Vikram Yadama

  4. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR, USA

    Eini Lowell

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Barbuta, C., Blanchet, P., Cloutier, A. et al. OSB as substrate for engineered wood flooring. Eur. J. Wood Prod. 70, 37–43 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00107-010-0494-y

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