SIFAT FISIS DAN KEAWETAN ALAMI KAYU PENGKIH TERHADAP SERANGAN RAYAP TANAH (MACROTERMES GILVUS)
ABSTRACT: Availability of wood
species from natural forest that commonly used for building contructions, meuble,
craft and industrial materials nowadays is increasingly limited and not
balanced with increasing the needs of wood. To fulfill the needs should be used
the species of wood that easily obtained, such as the species that are less
well known from natural forest or cultivated by people. The purpose of this
research is to evaluate the physical propersties and natural durability of
pengkih wood towards termite attack. These physical properties testing is based
on the ASTM D 143-94 standard with three replications in each sample. These
natural durability of wood testing based on the SNI 01-7207-2006 standard with
four replications in each sample. Based on the results of this research pengkih
wood is including class II of wood strength, that have value of density
substance is 1.5 and including class I of grade durability with percentage of
weight lose about 0.3-0.6%. The smallest value of attack intensity is in
the wooden base and the largest is in
the end of the wood.
Key words: Pengkih Wood,
physical properties, natural durability, termites
Penulis: Jon Herianta Ginting,
yunus afifuddin, Luthfi Hakim
Kode Jurnal: jpkehutanandd120042
