Degradation agent
Freeze-thaw cycling
Repeated ice formation in end-grain and checks, opening surface cracks over successive winters.
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Species (12)
- Norway Spruce← moderately resists
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 52/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- Siberian Larch← resists well
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 76/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- Western Red Cedar← moderately resists
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 66/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- Thermally Modified Ash← resists well
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 70/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- European Oak← resists well
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 72/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- Acetylated Radiata Pine← resists well
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 88/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- Douglas Fir← moderately resists
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 62/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- Scots Pine (heartwood)← moderately resists
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 58/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- Thermally Modified Pine← moderately resists
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 64/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- Sweet Chestnut← resists well
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 70/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- Robinia (Black Locust)← resists well
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 78/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
- Iroko (FSC certified)← resists well
WI-SL resistance profile: freezeThaw = 74/100 (ordinal, from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement).
Source: WI-SL v1.2.0
Climate zone (1)
- Stockholm, Sweden← elevates risk of
Stockholm, Sweden has a freezeThaw load of 88/100, above the 60 threshold used here to flag a dominant degradation driver.
Source: wood.ts:climates[]
Treatment (1)
- Acetylation← mitigates
Non-biocidal chemical modification of the cell wall, assessed by measured mass-loss and moisture-exclusion performance.
Source: en350-perf
How edges in this graph are derivedWI-GRAPH v1.0.0
Species → agent edges come from the WI-SL resistance profile (0–100 ordinal scale derived from EN 350 durability class, extractive chemistry and movement). ≥70 is read as "resists well", 45–69 as "moderately resists", below 45 as "is vulnerable to".
Climate → agent edges fire when a climate's driver value (UV, humidity, salt or freeze-thaw load) is 60 or above, read directly from the climate dataset.
Treatment → agent / standard edges come from the paraphrased standards corpus used across the site (EN 927-1, EN 351-1, EN 350 clause 4, EN 13501-1).
Species → standard edges reuse the exact source list already published for each Global WoodIntel Score sub-score.
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