Articles

CONTENTS
1. EDWARD ROSZYK, PRZEMYSŁAW MANIA, WALDEMAR MOLIŃSKI: The influence of microfibril angle on creep scotch pine wood under tensile stress along the grains . . . 347
2. PETR HORÁČEK, JAN TIPPNER, KHALED T. HASSAN: Nondestructive evaluation of static bending properties of scots pine wood using stress wave technique... 359
3. RICHARD HRČKA, MARIAN BABIAK: Some non-traditional factors influencing thermal properties of wood . . . 367
4. ERGUN BAYSAL: Surface characteristics of CCA treated Scots pine after accelerated weathering . . . 375
5. MICHAL KLOIBER, JAN TIPPNER, LUDĚK PRAUS, JAROSLAV HRIVNÁK: Experimental verification of a new tool for wood mechanical resistance measurement . . . 383
6. KIRIAKI GIAGLI, ELIAS VOULGARIDIS: Investigation on the appearance of cracks in logs after felling and bucking of trees in a poplar (I-214) plantation . . . . 399
7. MILAN DEMO, DUŠAN HÚSKA, ZUZANA POLÁKOVÁ: Impact of soil-climatic and hydrological conditions southwestern Slovakia to the production indicators of fast growing willow Salix . . . 409
8. MICHAL JABLONSKÝ, MARTINA BOTKOVÁ, KATARÍNA HROBOŇOVÁ: Accelerated ageing of wood-containing papers: Formation of weak acids and deterioration of tensile strength . . . 419
9. XIAOLI GU, CHENG LIU, HENG YIN, XUEWEI MENG, KANGHUA CHENG, MING HE ZHONGZHENG LI: Study on pyrolysis of sawdust under different heating rates by using TG-FTIR analysis . . . 435
10. ZEKI CANDAN, TURGAY AKBULUT, SIQUN WANG, XINAN ZHANG, A. FARUK SISCI: Layer thickness swell characteristics of medium density fibreboard (MDF) panels affected by some production parameters . . . 441
11. NEJC THALER, MIHA HUMAR, BOŠTJAN LESAR: Performance of selected copper amine based wood preservative supplemented with wood swelling agents . . . . .453
12. PIOTR WITOMSKI, JANUSZ ZAWADZKI, ANDRZEJ RADOMSKI: Changes of the pine wood (Pinus sylvestris L.) chemical composition during white- and brown-rot decay originated from chosen fungi species . . . 463
13. IGOR DŽINČIĆ, DUŠAN SKAKIĆ: Influence of type of fit on strength and deformation of oval tenon-mortise joint . . . 469
14. JERZY MAJKA: The influence of fan speed reduction on airflow uniformity in timber stack during kiln drying . . . 479
15. ELIAS VOULGARIDIS, COSTAS PASSIALIS, MARTINO NEGRI, STERGIOS ADAMOPOULOS: Shear bond strength of black locust wood glued with three adhesive systems . . . 489
16. ERIK BARADIT, PETER NIEMZ: SHORT NOTE - Elastic constants of some native chilean wood species using ultrasound technique . . . 497