Ayous: Log Description Wood Description
Ayous: Log Description Wood Description
Ayous: Log Description Wood Description
DRYING
Drying rate: rapid Possible drying schedule: 3
Risk of distortion: no risk or very slight risk
Temperature (°C)
Risk of casehardening: no M.C. (%) dry-bulb wet-bulb Air humidity (%)
Risk of checking: no risk or very slight risk Green 60 56 81
Risk of collapse: no 30 68 58 61
Note: During air drying, it is recommended to use large 20 74 60 51
spacer sticks to allow a good air circulation. 15 80 61 41
This schedule is given for information only and is applicable to thickness lower or equal to 38 mm.
It must be used in compliance with the code of practice.
For thickness from 38 to 75 mm, the air relative humidity should be increased by 5 % at each step.
For thickness over 75 mm, a 10 % increase should be considered.
ASSEMBLING
Nailing / screwing: poor
Gluing: correct
Note: Gluing must be done carefully: absorbent wood.
COMMERCIAL GRADING
Appearance grading for sawn timbers: According to SATA grading rules (1996)
For the "General Purpose Market":
Possible grading for square edged timbers: choix I, choix II, choix III, choix IV
Possible grading for short length lumbers: choix I, choix II
Possible grading for short length rafters: choix I, choix II, choix III
For the "Special Market":
Possible grading for strips and small boards (ou battens): choix I, choix II, choix III
Possible grading for rafters: choix I, choix II, choix III
FIRE SAFETY
Conventional French grading: Thickness > 14 mm : M.3 (moderately inflammable)
Thickness < 14 mm : M.4 (easily inflammable)
Euroclasses grading: D s2 d0
Default grading for solid wood, according to requirements of European standard EN 14081-1 annex C (April
2009). It concerns structural graded timber in vertical uses with mean density upper 0.35 and thickness upper
22 mm.
END-USES
Moulding Veneer for interior of plywood
Veneer for back or face of plywood Current furniture or furniture components
Boxes and crates Interior joinery
Interior panelling Fiber or particle boards
Blockboard Sculpture
Matches Sliced veneer
Pencils
Note: Substitute for POPLAR (Populus spp.) for several end-uses: light furniture, pannelling....