Effect of extractives on vibrational properties of African Padauk (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Pterocarpus soyauxii</Emphasis> Taub.) |
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| Authors: | Iris Brémaud Nadine Amusant Kazuya Minato Joseph Gril Bernard Thibaut |
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| Institution: | 1.Laboratory of Forest Resource Circulating Circles, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences,Kyoto Prefectural University,Kyoto,Japan;2.Production et valorisation des bois tropicaux et méditerranéens,CIRAD PERSYST Department,Montpellier cedex 5,France;3.Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil,CNRS, Université Montpellier II,34095,France;4.Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane,CNRS,Kourou cedex,French Guyana |
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| Abstract: | Extractives can affect the vibrational properties tanδ (damping coefficient) and E′/ρ (specific Young’s modulus), but this
is highly dependent on species, compounds, and cellular locations. This paper investigates such effects for African Padauk
(Pterocarpus soyauxii Taub.), a tropical hardwood with high extractives content and a preferred material for xylophones. Five groups of 26 heartwood
specimens with large, yet comparable, ranges in vibrational properties were extracted in different solvents. Changes in vibrational
properties were set against yields of extracts and evaluation of their cellular location. Methanol (ME) reached most of the
compounds (13%), located about half in lumen and half in cell-wall. Water solubility was extremely low. tanδ and E′/ρ were
very strongly related (R
2 ≥ 0.93), but native wood had abnormally low values of tanδ, while extraction shifted this relation towards higher tanδ values.
ME extracted heartwood became in agreement with the average of many species, and close to sapwood. Extractions increased tanδ
as much as 60%, irrespective of minute moisture changes or initial properties. Apparent E′/ρ was barely changed (+2% to −4%)
but, after correcting the mass contribution of extracts, it was in fact slightly reduced (down to −10% for high E′/ρ), and
increasingly so for specimens with low initial values of E′/ρ. |
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