Wood Handbook, Wood as an Engineering Material

Centennial Edition Wood Handbook Wood as an Engineering Material United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Forest P ...

Centennial Edition Wood Handbook Wood as an Engineering Material Forest Products Laboratory • United States Department of Agricu ...

April 2010 Forest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook—Wood as an engineer- ing material. General Technical Report FPL-GTR-1 ...

iii Chapter 6 Commercial Lumber, Chapter 7 Stress Grades and Design Prop- Chapter 10 Adhesives with Wood Materials CONTENTS Chap ...

iv Chapter 11 Wood-Based Composite Ma- terials Panel Products, Glued-Laminated Timber, Structural Composite Lumber, and Chapter ...

v FOREWORD We are proud to present this edition of the Wood Handbook—Wood as an Engineering Material, pre- pared and updated to ...

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vii PREFACE This edition of the Wood Handbook—Wood as an Engineering Material builds upon past editions, in particular the 1999 ...

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CHAPTER 1 Wood as a Sustainable Building Material Robert H. Falk, Research General Engineer Few building materials possess the e ...

Their calculations show that the energy consumed in the manufacture of building materials (mining iron and coal for steel or har ...

is used to produce a wood or paper product, these products store carbon while in use. For example, solid wood lumber, a common w ...

productivity while allowing for conservation of resources (Howe and others 2004). The growing trends in green building are helpi ...

a management plan based on strict environmental standards and pass an inspection by an ATFS inspecting forester. Third-party cer ...

Perez-Garcia, J.; Lippke, B.; Briggs, D.; Wilson, J.; Bowyer, J.; Meil, J. 2005. The environmental performance of renew- able bu ...

CHAPTER 2 Characteristics and Availability of Commercially Important Woods Michael C. Wiemann, Research Botanist Throughout hist ...

Botanically, softwoods are gymnosperms or conifers; their seeds are not enclosed in the ovary of the flower. Ana- tomically, sof ...

Species Descriptions In this chapter, each species or group of species is described in terms of its principal location, characte ...

of either species. Basswood grows in the eastern half of North America from the Canadian provinces southward. Most basswood lumb ...

importance are river birch (B. nigra), and gray birch (B. populifolia). Paper birch is transcontinental, whereas yellow and swee ...