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Wood handbook : wood as an engineering material.
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- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- General technical report FPL ; 282.
- General technical report FPL ; 282
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wood--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Wood.
- Wood--Mechanical properties.
- Wood--Preservation.
- Wood--Anatomy.
- Wood--Deterioration.
- Wood finishing.
- Lumber--Drying.
- Lumber.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- handbooks.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (approximately 546 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map.
- Edition:
- 2021 edition.
- Other Title:
- Wood as an engineering material
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : Forest Products Laboratory, Department of Agriculture of Forest Service, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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 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:
- "March 2021"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (USFS, viewed January 18, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wood handbook
- OCLC:
- 1249948952
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