Wood Handbook, Wood as an Engineering Material

September (U. serotina) elm. American elm is also known as white elm, slippery elm as red elm, rock elm as cork elm, and winged ...

water hickory, from Texas to South Carolina; and nutmeg hickory, in Texas and Louisiana. The sapwood of this group is white or n ...

Heartwood and sapwood are similar in appearance to hard maple. Heartwood of soft maple is somewhat lighter in color than the sap ...

chestnut (Q. prinus), post (Q. stellata), overcup (Q. lyrata), swamp chestnut (Q. michauxii), bur (Q. macrocarpa), chinkapin (Q. ...

The heartwood of black walnut varies from light to dark brown; the sapwood is nearly white and up to 8 cm (3 in.) wide in open-g ...

wood. The wood is generally straight grained and compara- tively uniform in texture. Slow-grown wood is moderately light in weig ...

construction and in the manufacture of boxes, pallets, and crates. Hemlock, Western and Mountain Western hemlock (Tsuga heteroph ...

has a fine, uniform texture and a spicy odor. Incense-cedar is light in weight, moderately low in strength, soft, low in shock r ...

The heartwood of ponderosa pine is light reddish brown, and the wide sapwood is nearly white to pale yellow. The wood of the out ...

Carolina southward into Florida and westward into eastern Texas; (b) shortleaf pine (P. echinata), southeastern New York southwa ...

Redcedar, Eastern Eastern redcedar (Juni‑ perus virginiana) grows throughout the eastern half of the United States, except in Ma ...

Redwood Redwood (Sequoia sem‑ pervirens) grows on the coast of California and some trees are among the tallest in the world. A c ...

is easily worked and holds paint well, and the heartwood is highly resistant to decay. Because of its high durability it is used ...

names, many cross-references are included. Text informa- tion is necessarily brief, but when used in conjunction with the shrink ...

Azobe (Ekki) Azobe or ekki (Lophira alata) is found in West Africa and extends into the Congo basin. The heartwood is dark red, ...

Balau Balau, red balau, and se- langan batu constitute a group of species that are the heaviest of the 200 Shorea species. About ...

Ceiba Ceiba (Ceiba pentandra) is a large tree that grows to 66 m (200 ft) in height with a straight cylindrical bole 13 to 20 m ...

(50 lb ft–3) at 12% moisture content). The strength proper- ties of courbaril are quite high and very similar to those of shagba ...

resistant to decay fungi and termites. It is also very resistant to marine borers in temperate waters but much less so in warm t ...

The wood is grayish white to pinkish brown and, in some trees, a uniform light brown. There is generally no distinc- tion betwee ...