Today we present a short picture story from an experiment that allows you to determine the moisture content in tested wood samples.
A fragment was saved from each sample after testing on the UTM and immediately weighed. After collecting all the pieces of wood, we dried them at 103 degrees Celsius until a constant weight was obtained. The difference between the weight of the “wet” and “dry” piece gave us information about the true moisture content of each dog-bone and each wedge-splitting sample.
An additional advantage was the beautiful smell of lime wood spreading in the laboratory during drying!
The research is a part of the Preludium 19 project, project number 2020/37/N/HS2/01727/2, financed by the National Science Center, Poland.