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Wood handbook: Wood as an engineering material
| Authors: | Robert J. Ross |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Type: | General Technical Report |
| Station: | Forest Products Laboratory |
| Source: | FPL-GTR-282 |
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Abstract
Summarizes information on wood as an engineering material. Presents properties of wood and wood-based products of particular concern to the architect and engineer. Includes discussion of designing with wood and wood-based products along with some pertinent uses.Titles contained within Wood handbook: Wood as an engineering material
- Chapter 1: Wood as a renewable and sustainable resource
- Chapter 2: Characteristics and availability of commercially important woods
- Chapter 3: Structure and function of wood
- Chapter 4: Moisture relations and physical properties of wood
- Chapter 5: Mechanical properties of wood
- Chapter 6: Commercial lumber, round timbers, and ties
- Chapter 7: Stress grades and design properties for lumber, round timber, and ties
- Chapter 8: Fastenings
- Chapter 9: Structural analysis equations
- Chapter 10: Wood adhesives: bond formation and performance
- Chapter 11: Wood-based composite materials: panel products, glued laminated timber, structural composite lumber, and wood–nonwood composites
- Chapter 12: Mechanical properties of wood-based composite materials
- Chapter 13: Drying and control of moisture content and dimensional changes
- Chapter 14: Biodeterioration of wood
- Chapter 15: Wood preservatives
- Chapter 16: Finishing wood
- Chapter 17: Use of wood in buildings and bridges
- Chapter 18: Fire safety of wood construction
- Chapter 19: Specialty treatments
- Chapter 20: Heat sterilization of wood