Impregnation of Wood With a High Viscosity Epoxy Resin

Abstract

A method is described for impregnating small wood specimens with a high viscosity epoxy resin, without the use of a diluent to reduce viscosity.The method relies upon the strong ternperdturedependence of viscosity, in conjunction with a curing agent that does not polymerize rapidly a: h ~g h temperatures.Some preliminary results for a variety of Northeastern species are presented.