%0 Journal Article
%T Effects of saturated vapor pre-steaming on drying strain in asian white birch: Experimentation and modelling
%A Jingyao Zhao
%A Stavros Avramidis
%A Yingchun Cai
%A Yongdong Zhou
%A Zongying Fu
%J -
%D 2019
%X Abstract The effect of low pressure saturated vapor pre-steaming on restrained shrinkage strain, mechano-sorptive creep and the distribution of moisture content was investigated during conventional drying of wood discs. Mechano-sorptive creep was furthermore modelled by artificial neural network theory with five inputs, i.e., pre-steaming and drying temperatures, wood moisture content, relative humidity and distance from the pith. Results revealed that, pre-steaming partly reduced the variation of moisture content distribution along radial direction, increased restrained shrinkage strain in heartwood and decreased in sapwood and slightly decreased the mechano-sorptive creep. The neural network model provided reasonable prediction results, namely, the coefficient of determination for training, validation and test sets greater than 0.95
%K Artificial neural network
%K Betula platyphylla
%K mechano-sorptive creep
%K restrained shrinkage strain
%K white birch discs
%U http://revistas.ubiobio.cl/index.php/MCT/article/view/3325