Review of state of the art of dowel laminated timber members and densified wood materials as sustainable engineered wood products for construction and building applications
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Engineered Wood Products (EWPs) are increasingly being used as construction and building materials. However, the predominant use of petroleum-based adhesives in EWPs contributes to the release of toxic gases (e.g. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and formaldehyde) which are harmful to the environment. Also, the use of adhesives in EWPs affects their end-of-life disposal, reusability and recyclability. This paper focusses on dowel laminated timber members and densified wood materials, which are adhesive free and sustainable alternatives to commonly used EWPs (e.g. glulam and CLT). The improved mechanical properties and tight fitting due to spring-back of densified wood support their use as sustainable alternatives to hardwood fasteners to overcome their disadvantages such as loss of stiffness over time and dimensional instability. This approach would also contribute to the uptake of dowel laminated timber members and densified wood materials for more diverse and advanced structural applications and subsequently yield both environmental and economic benefits.
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Cross-laminated panels, solid or latticed, could be made with dowel and nail fasteners.
“Cross-laminated panels, solid or latticed, could be made with dowel and nail fasteners [37].”
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Section 2 describes dowel-fastened timber panels, and the Fig. 1 caption identifies an adhesive-free cross-laminated timber panel. The paper discusses nail fasteners for laminated timber members and nailed beams in Section 2.1, but the passages do not establish that cross-laminated panels can be nailed or that either solid and latticed versions can be made. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Sotayo, A., Bradley, D., Bather, M., Sareh, P., Oudjene, M., El-Houjeyri, I., Harte, A. M., Mehra, S., O'Ceallaigh, C., Haller, P., Namari, S., Makradi, A., Belouettar, S., Bouhala, L., Deneufbourg, F., & Guan, Z.
- Affiliations
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Matériau Bois (FR)
- Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway (IE)
- Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
- Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LU)
- Corresponding author
- Guan, Zhongwei
- ORCID
- Venue
- Developments in the Built Environment
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-02
- Volume
- 1
- Pages
- 100004
- ISSN
- 2666-1659 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2995526635
- Cited by
- 165
- References
- 70
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 7
- FWCI
- 9.54
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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- Developments in the Built Environment (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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- ARAN (University of Galway Research Repository) (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- ARAN (University of Galway Research Repository) (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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- University of Galway Research Repository (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- European Regional Development Fund
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Wood Treatment and Properties
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Bamboo properties and applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Hygrothermal properties of building materials
- Keywords
- densified wood, engineered wood products, formaldehyde emission, volatile organic compounds, springback, timber structural members, sustainable construction materials, dimensional stability
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