Wood preservation and modification

Methods of wood protection for improvement its durability. Chemical protection of wood. Modifying protection of wood. Types of wood modification; properties of modified wood; application of modified wood and methods of wood modification used in industry; mechanism of enhancing wood properties with wood modification; changes in the physical and chemical properties of wood owing to wood modification; new approaches that will come into prominence in future. Laboratory exercises will support the concepts being presented in lectures. thermo- and thermomechanical wood modification.