Table 5.
Water Absorption, Thickness Swelling and Linear Expansion of Com-ply

Type of Com-ply	Water Absorption (%)		Thickness Swelling (%)		Linear Expansion
					Parallel		Perpendicular
					2ns Hour	24sHour	2s Hour	24sHour	2ns Hour	24ns Hour	2ns Hour	24ns Hour
	MDF	22.3 ± 14.3	52.0 ± 9.5	3.90 ± 2.35	12.82 ± 1.17	0.21 ± 0.05	0.52 ± 0.07	0.37 ± 0.10	0.86 ± 0.25
	MMI	17.8 ±7.1	41.8 ± 12.0	2.00 ± 1.17	7.57 ± 2.59	0.17 ± 0.06	0.38 ± 0.08	0.43 ± 0.03	0.68 ± 0.19
MME	12.0 ± 4.3	32.9 ± 7.4	1.20 ± 0.62	6.58 ± 2.97	0.18 ± 0.13	0.39 ± 0.05	0.33 ± 0.11	0.66 ± 0.17
AMI	18.0 ± 8.5	45.2 ± 8.2	1.26 ± 1.03	6.15 ± 2.39	0.26 ± 0.07	0.44 ± 0.10	0.45 ± 0.18	0.72 ± 0.24
AME	17.0 ± 8.9	41.1 ± 11.0	2.02 ± 1.20	6.33 ± 3.11	0.18 ± 0.12	0.39 ± 0.10	0.39 ± 0.19	0.73 ± 0.27
PMI	28.7 ± 17.0	44.8 ± 12.1	5.90 ± 4.10	12.26 ± 3.08	0.14 ± 0.05	0.30 ± 0.08	0.41 ± 0.24	0.81 ± 0.12
PME	10.0 ± 0.7	26.0 ± 5.0	1.24 ± 0.55	4.75 ± 0.63	0.22 ± 0.07	0.41 ± 0.09	0.38 ± 0.09	0.57 ± 0.10

significant (p ≤ 0.05)
insignificant (p > 0.05)