Modern structural wood products

✍ Scribed by Frank Lam

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 87 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1365-0556
• DOI: 10.1002/pse.79

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A Correction has been published for this article in Progress in Structural Engineering and Materials 3(4) 2001, 361.

Engineered wood products are structural composites that have been gaining successes in the construction industry. The mechanical and physical properties of these products depend on the interacting relationships between the quality of the resource, the manufacturing process, and the applications. In general their mechanical properties are more uniform compared with solid sawn material; hence, higher allowable properties are available in engineering design. This paper reviews the manufacturing processes, structural properties, physical attributes, and common applications of some of the major engineered wood products including: glued‐laminated timber, parallel strand lumber, laminated strand lumber, laminated veneer lumber, and thick oriented strand board/rimboard.