The invention discloses a method for detecting
moisture content of wood on the basis of an
infrared differential spectrum technology. The method is characterized by comprising the steps of selecting wood to be detected, preparing an absolutely-dry sample and balance samples of different
relative humidity by utilizing the selected wood; measuring an
infrared spectrogram I<o> of the absolutely-dry sample and an
infrared spectrogram I<w> of each balance sample by utilizing an infrared
spectrometer; subtracting the infrared
spectrogram I<o> of the absolutely-dry sample from the infrared spectrogram I<w> of the balance sample to obtain an infrared differential spectrogram I<w-o>; solving an area A<w-o> in the range of 2900 to 3750 cm<-1> in the infrared differential spectrogram; determining the
moisture content W of the wood samples of different
relative humidity by utilizing a traditional
drying method; linearly regressing the
moisture content W and the area A<w-o> of each sample by utilizing a least square method to establish a model for detecting the moisture content of the wood by utilizing the infrared
differential spectrum technology. The model can be used for the
mass detection of the wood samples to be detected, each sample is detected only for one second, and the detection time of the
wood moisture content is greatly shortened. The method has advantages of short period, rapidness in detection and micro scale and even trace amount of needed sample, is a nondestructive detection technique and can be applied to the field of the evaluation of wood.