Wood handbook : wood as an engineering material

✍ Scribed by Forest Products Laboratory

• Publisher: Forest Products Laboratory
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 463
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Forests, distinct from all their other services and benefits, supply a basic raw material - wood - which from the earliest times has furnished mankind with necessities of existence and with comforts and conveniences beyond number.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page......Page 1
Abstract......Page 2
Preface......Page 5
9 Adhesive Bonding of Wood Materials......Page 3
Index......Page 4
Contributors......Page 6
1 Characteristics and Availability of Commercially Important Wood......Page 7
2 Structure of Wood......Page 41
3 Physical Properties and Moisture Relations of Wood......Page 45
4 Mechanical Properties of Wood......Page 69
5 Commercial Lumber......Page 114
6 Lumber Stress Grades and Design Properties Responsibilities and Standards for Stress......Page 134
7 Fastenings......Page 148
8 Structural Analysis Equations......Page 176
9 Adhesive Bonding of Wood Materials......Page 187
10 Wood-Based Composites and Panel Products......Page 211
11 Glued Structural Members......Page 242
12 Drying and Control of Moisture Content and Dimensional Changes......Page 266
13 Biodeterioration of Wood......Page 286
14 Wood Preservation......Page 302
15 Finishing of Wood......Page 329
16 Use of Wood In Building and Bridges......Page 366
17 Fire Safety......Page 380
18 Round Timbers and Ties......Page 396
19 Specialty Treatments......Page 405
Glossary......Page 419
A......Page 433
B......Page 434
C......Page 437
D......Page 440
F......Page 441
H......Page 444
I,J,K......Page 446
L......Page 447
M......Page 448
O......Page 450
P......Page 451
R......Page 457
S......Page 458
T......Page 461
U,V,W......Page 462
Y......Page 463