2018/12/12 by Christopher G. Hunt, Charles R. Frihart, Manfred Dunky +1 · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Chemistry · Engineering · #Bond #Business #Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis #Wood Treatment and Properties #Wood and Agarwood Research
paper · doi:10.7569/raa.2018.097312
openalex publication_date 2018/12/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
Understanding why wood bonds fail is an excellent route toward understanding how to make them better. Certifying a bonded product usually requires achieving a specific load, percent wood failure, and an ability to withstand some form of moisture exposure without excessive delamination. While these tests protect the public from catastrophic failures, they are not very helpful in understanding why bonds fail. Understanding failure often requires going beyond what meets the naked eye, conducting additional tests, probing the wood surface, the fracture surface, adhesive properties, and the interaction of wood and adhesive during bond formation and service. This review of wood bond analysis methods reviews fundamentals of wood bonding and highlights recent developments in the analyses and understanding of wood bonds. It concludes with a series of challenges facing the wood bonding community.