This paper describes an investigation into the relationship between the changes in tensile properties and structural integrity of wood during weathering. Investigated species were Scots pine (heartwood and sapwood, and separately earlywood and latewood), and Norway spruce. The photodegradation was monitored through the changes in microtensile strength of wood during natural and artificial UV-weathering (''thin strip'' method), and by subsequent FE SEM microscopical analysis of transverse-fracture surfaces of the strips. The tensile strength changes during exposure (initial increase and two following phases of decrease) were analysed and were shown to be consistent with fractographic evidence of the structural changes in wood. These include the breakdown of compound middle lamella (CML), the thinning of cell walls and the development of brittleness of the secondary walls. The mechanism of failure is essentially different in earlywood and latewood, and the microtensile strength is predominantly determined by the latewood portions within growth rings. Untersuchung des Photoabbaus von Holz mit Hilfe eines Mikro-ZugfestigkeitstestsTeil 4: Zug-und Brucheigenschaften von bewittertem Holz Diese Arbeit beschreibt Untersuchungen der Beziehung zwischen den Ä nderungen der Zugfestigkeit und des Feingefüges von Holz infolge Wetterbeanspruchung. Untersucht wurden Kiefernholz (Kern-und Splintholz und, getrennt voneinander, Früh-und Spätholz) sowie Fichtenholz. Der Lichtabbau des Holzes wurde charakterisiert durch die Veränderung der Mikrozugfestigkeit während einer natürlichen und einer künstlichen UV-und Wetterbeanspruchung von dünnen (mikrotomierten) Holzstreifen ('thin strip'-Methode). Anschliessend wurden Querbruchflächen der Holzstreifen mit dem FE-SEM (Feldemissions-Rasterelektronenmikroskop) mikroskopisch analysiert. Die Ä nderung der Zugfestigkeit der Streifen während der Wetterexposition -anfänglicher Anstieg und nachfolgende Phasen des Rückgangs -wurden analysiert und erwiesen sich als übereinstimmend mit den fraktografischen Anzeichen der Gefügeveränderungen. Diese zeigten sich als Abbau der zusammengesetzten Mittellamelle, im Dünnerwerden und in einer Versprö-dung der Zellwände. Die Schädigungsmechanismen sind merklich unterschiedlich in Früh-und Spätholz. Die Mikrozugfestigkeit ist dominant vom Spätholzanteil der Jahrringe bestimmt. IntroductionA series of investigations was performed to determine the influences of various factors, such as temperature, moisture, spectral light distribution and other physical aspects of exposures, on the weathering mechanisms and photodegradation rates in wood. The first two papers in this series (Derbyshire et al. 1995(Derbyshire et al. , 1996 demonstrated that the measurement of loss of microtensile strength of thin wood strips exposed to solar radiation offers a consistent and reliable means of determining photodegradation rates for wood. It was shown that artificial weathering regimes could provide good simulation of the effects of natural weathering and analytical procedures we...
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