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Essay on Alternative Material in Furniture Construction
Introduction
As the humanity approach the 21st century, there is a greater understanding of the need for different materials in a growing world population and increasing wealth. All together, there is an awareness that landfills are filling up, the resources are being used up, planet is being polluted, that non-renewable resources will not last everlastingly, and that humanity need more environmentally friendly materials (Rowell, 377-402).
Complex materials made from plant fibers are receiving a lot of attention at present since they are considered to be an environmentally responsive resource. Humans have lived with and developed plant fiber composites since the beginning of human existence. These composites were used as a source of energy, to make shelters, construct tools, make clothing, keep records, and produce weapons.
Collectively, society learned very early the great advantages of a resource that was widely distributed, multi functional, strong, and easy to work, aesthetic, biodegradable, and renewable.
Plant fiber composites are usually considered as solid, i.e. wood. As the availability of large diameter trees decreased and the price increased the wood industry looked to replace large timber products and solid lumber with reconstituted wood products made using smaller diameter trees and saw and pulp mill wastes. There has been a tendency away from solid wood for some traditional applications and toward smaller element sizes. The new products started with very thick laminates for glue laminated beams, to thin veneers for plywood, to strands for strand board, to flakes for flake board, to particles for particleboard, and, finally, to fibers for fiberboard (Mara 1979). Primarily, all of these were made using wood. As the size of the furnish element gets smaller, it is possible to either remove defects viz. knots, cracks, checks, etc or redistribute them to reduce their effect on product properties. In addition, as the element size becomes smaller, and became more consistent, uniform, continuous, predictable, and reproducible. Getting down to the fiber level also allows a wide variety of plant fibers other than wood to be considered....
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