Pressure Impact on Common Reed Particleboards Manufacturing Procedure

Present work elaborates on systems and engineering procedures to create particleboards based on Common Reed. Particleboard was manufactured using the shredding blades, usually applied by wood-particleboard industry. Diverse types of boards were manufactured keeping the same proportion of urea formaldehyde resin (for indoor use), but with different particle proportions according to ISO standard sieves, and varying the pressure from 3 N/mm2 to 25 N/mm2. Mechanical Density, bending resistance and elasticity tests were performed and results were compared against commercial wood particleboards. Results allowed us to state that particle size and pressure plays a significant role in common reed particleboard properties. Common reed particleboards were classified according to UNE EN standards, taking into account relevant standard tests carried out as well as additional classification standard-rules.