Mimicking of the strength loss in the Vasa: Model experiments with iron-impregnated recent oak

Holzforschung

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 707-714

  Norbakhsh, Shahin ^a   Bjurhager, Ingela ^b   Almkvist, Gunnar ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Cysteine; Degradation; Extractives; Iron compounds; Oak wood; Polyethylene glycol (PEG); Preservation; Tensile strength; Vasa ship; Waterlogged wood

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS; AMINO ACIDS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DEGRADATION; HUMIDITY CONTROL; OXYGEN; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENES; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; TENSILE STRENGTH; WARSHIPS; WOOD PRESERVATION;

AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; CYSTEINE; DEGRADATION PROCESS; EXTRACTIVES; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; OAK WOOD; OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION; WATERLOGGED WOODS;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84899878139     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: 1437434X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hf-2012-0150     Document Type: Article

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