Effects of common Sarawak soil types on in-ground natural durability and leachability of CCA treated hardwoods

• Main Author: Chong, Peter Kian Fui
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9308/1/Peter%20Chong%20Kian%20Fui%20ft.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9308/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Wood and soils are important natural resources of the land, the former widely used as structural supports in contact with the latter. Many low durability wood species exposed to soil contact has reported high incidence of decay failures in poorly treated and untreated materials depending on soil typ...