Wood handbook : wood as an engineering material.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.)

Series:

General technical report FPL ; 190.

General technical report FPL ; 190

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wood--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Wood.

Genre:

handbooks.

Handbooks and manuals

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (509 pages in various pagings) : mostly color illustrations, map

Edition:

Centennial ed.

Other Title:

Wood as an engineering material

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, [2010]

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1: Wood as a Sustainable Building Material

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: Adhesives with Wood Materials: Bond Formation and Performance

Chapter 11: Wood-Based Composite Materials: Panel Products, Glued-Laminated Timber, Structural Composite Lumber, and Wood-Nonwood Composite Materials

Chapter 12: Mechanical Properties of Wood-Based Composite Materials

Chapter 13: Drying and Control of Moisture Content: content and dimensional changes

Chapter 14: Biodeterioration of Wood

Chapter 15: Wood Preservation

Chapter 16: Finishing of 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

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

"April 2010."

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 24, 2011).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Wood handbook

OCLC:

657360770