The effect of mechanical treatment of beech wood surface on quality of surface finish

Abstract

The effect of mechanical treatment of beech wood surface on quality of surface finish. The paper deals with the quality of three surface finishes intended into interior. Three types of coating materials were tested (polyurethane, waterborne, wax). Each type of the surface finish was created on beech wood surface in three various coating thicknesses. The coating thicknesses differed in number of coatings of the coating material. The surface finishes were evaluated according to the impact resistance and the resistance to abrasion. The polyurethane surface finish showed the lowest resistance to abrasion. If the film thickness was increasing, the resistance to abrasion was decreasing. The greatest differences in the resistance to abrasion, depending on the wood surface treatment, were found on the wax surface finish. In general, the waterborne surface finish showed the best resistance to abrasion. Pressing the wood surface before finishing increased the impact resistance of all three surface finishes. The damage of the surfaces was only of grade 2 (No cracks on the surface and the intrusion was only slightly visible). The lowest impact resistance of the surface finishes was found on grinded wood surface; the damage was graded as 4 (Visible large cracks at the intrusion). At the drop height of 400 mm, the effect of the film thickness on the impact resistance was no longer present on all differently mechanically treated surfaces.