Keawetan Cross Laminated Timber dari Batang Kelapa Sawit (Elaeis guineensis Jacq) pada Berbagai Orientasi Serat.

Abstract

Lack of raw materials wood push us to make an alternative raw materials a substitute for wood. On the other hand, the longer period the more palm oil plantations (Elaesis guineensis Jacq) resulted in the waste of palm trunks wasted any more. It also spurred us to utilize waste stems of palm by making a cross laminated timber. The purpose of this study was to test the durability of natural cross laminated timber from oil palm trunks on a variety of fiber orientation. Testing is done by the method of JIS K 1571-2004. The results shows that orientation fibers not affect to the weight loss, mortality, and feeding rate. Form of termite attacks tend to spread but the hole following the orientation of fibers. Cross laminated timber to the orientation angles 30o, 45o, 60o, and 90o there are attack from the direction of the side of a test sample. Based on SNI 01.7202.2006, durability of palm trunks against termite attack belong to the durability of a very bad while cross laminated timber from oil palm trunk belongs to the bad durability.