Coatings for wood flooring, applied on the wood surface to enhance its durability, undergo numerous mechanical stresses during their lifetime. Among the various damages (chemical, mechanical, environmental) that coatings have to resist to, mechanical damages are the most problematic. Mechanical damages can generate failures at the surface of the finish (scratches, indentations, wear) that can significantly affect the finish aspect and reduce the flooring's durability. The formation of surface failures may indicate insufficient mechanical properties. The main objective of this work is to enhance the mechanical properties of UV-curable coatings for wood flooring and to better understand their physicochemical behavior. Two research axes were defined. The first one concerns the oxygen inhibition of the UV-curable acrylate polymerization that affects the coating surface and the use of several new compounds able to reduce oxygen inhibition. The main objective of the second axis was to improve the mechanical performances of multilayered finishing system and to was used to distinguish the impact of inhibition caused by oxygen according to the depth of oxygen diffusion. Products never used to reduce the oxygen inhibition were added to formulations, according to their chemical nature and their supposed effect on oxygen inhibition. Their efficiency was then compared to the efficiency of several compounds, already described in the literature, but under different experimental conditions. In addition to the comparison of the compounds' efficiency during the formulations polymerization, their effect on the mechanical properties of the coating was considered. As the influence of oxygen is limited by its diffusion in the formulation, the inhibition is generally higher at the coatings surface. Abrasion tests and pendulum hardness helped to complete the study and give a broader discernment of the compounds' efficiency. The main purpose of the second axis was to deepen the comprehension of multilayered finish systems behavior when submitted to mechanical loads. First, the structure-property relationship of finishing systems was analyzed by formulating monomer-oligomer couples applied as topcoats. Physico-chemical properties, such as glass transition temperature (Tg) and crosslinking density (CLD), were measured by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA). Secondly, topcoat hardness, abrasion, scratch and friction resistances were determined. These results enabled a better understanding of the topcoat behavior when exposed to various mechanical loads. A better perception of the parameters influencing the topcoat mechanical. In order to investigate further the finishing system mechanical behavior, the influence of the basecoat properties was evaluated. Once again, the physico-chemical properties of the formulations were analyzed separately by DMA. Then, the influence of the basecoat properties on hardness and scratch resistance of a multilayered finish was determined. As the role of the basecoat is to absorb and diffuse partly the mechanical loads endured by surface layers, the impact of basecoat thickness was also investigated. Moreover, the effect of the basecoats on the scratch profile was examined by surface profilometry. A correlation between the basecoat thickness and the mean depth of scratches was obtained. The influence of the various formulation properties on the scratch resistance was also demonstrated. At the maximal thickness applied, basecoat having a denser polymeric network withstand better scratches as they showed a lower mean scratch depth.