UNDERSTANDING WOOD

AND ITS USE

Oleh :
RIANA ANGGRAINI, S.Hut. M.Si.
(Staf Pengajar Program Studi Kehutanan
Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Jambi)
E-mail : nanuk_onra@yahoo.co.id
 Forest product technology is a science that studies
various types, ways of processing (technology)
forest products, including to know the basics of
science and application in technology.

 Forest product technologies include:

1. WOOD TECHNOLOGY
2. NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCT
TECHNOLOGY
 Wood technology
includes Wood
Identification, Wood
Anatomy (Structure),
Wood Properties
(Physical, Chemical,
and Mechanical
Properties), Wood
Defects, Wood
Variability, Pickling,
and Drying, and so on.
 FOREST PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY

WOOD TECHNOLOGY NON-TIMBER FOREST

PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY

BASICS OF WOOD PROCESSING OF TIMBER

TECHNOLOGY FOREST PRODUCTS

Among others:
Wood identification
Anatomy of wood
Properties of wood
Wood physics
Wood mechanics
Wood chemistry
 UNDERSTANDING :
WOOD IS A MATERIAL (RAW-MATERIAL)
WHICH COMES FROM THE METABOLIC
PROCESS OF LIVING ORGANISMS, WOODY
PLANTS IN THE FORM OF TREES (BIO-
MATERIAL).

Not all plants can produce wood.

Features of woody plants?
 CHARACTERISTICS OF WOODY PLANTS

 Woody plants must be

vascular plants
 The must be parennial
plants
 The must posses a steam
that persits form year to
year
 Must be able to do
secondary thickening (the
stem increases in size so it
must have cambium)
 TYPES OF WOODY PLANTS

1. A tree is a woody plant that when mature

in a natural place (nature) must be able to
reach a minimum height of 20 feet (6-7
meters)

2. A shrub is a woody plant with a height

below 20 feet

3. Liana (a woody liana) vine plant (eg:

rattan)
 GENERAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD

 Renewable resources
 Easy-to-process materials
 It has specific properties (strong, elastic,
ductile) with a distinctive pattern and color.
 Hygroscopic and anisotropic
 Can burn and be attacked by wood-
destroying organisms
 GENERAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD

 Wood is hygroscopic, namely wood that binds

and releases water according to the
temperature and relative humidity of the
surrounding air

 Wood is anisotropic, that is, wood has different

properties from all three planes (radial,
tangential and longitudinal)
Big Logs changed
into small ones

Mr. Shengfu Wu
Green Panel Consulting
2005.09.26 Beijing
Acacia mangium
ALBIZIA FALCATARIA
Rubber wood
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