Wood Handbook, Wood as an Engineering Material

medium, and the grain is straight to slightly interlocked. The wood has a fragrant odor, which is lost in drying. Ka- neelhart i ...

hardwood with mechanical properties of a correspondingly high order, even somewhat higher than that of jarrah. The heartwood is ...

tropical America from southern Mexico to the Brazilian Amazon region and Trinidad. The bright red to reddish or purplish brown h ...

The heartwood varies from pale pink to dark reddish brown. The grain is frequently interlocked, and the texture is medium to coa ...

resinous like some keruing (Dipterocarpus) species that re- semble meranti. All the meranti groups are machined easily except wh ...

wavy. The strength of air-dried merbau is comparable with that of hickory (Carya), but density is somewhat lower (800 kg m–3 (50 ...

The orange or golden yellow heartwood darkens on expo- sure to air and is clearly defined from the whitish or pale yellow sapwoo ...

In its areas of growth, pau marfim is used for much the same purposes as are sugar maple and birch in the United States. Introdu ...

all species is from Mexico through Central America and southward to southern Brazil. Freshly cut heartwood is brown. It turns a ...

from the Spanish word for oak (Quercus). In addition, T. rosea is called roble because the wood superficially re- sembles U.S. o ...

may be up to 10 cm (4 in.) wide. The texture is rather fine. The grain is interlocked and produces narrow and uniform striping o ...

The heartwood is light brown or straw-colored, sometimes with a pinkish tint. The texture is moderately coarse and the grain int ...

Wallaba Wallaba is a common name applied to the species in the genus Eperua. Other names include wapa and apa. The center of dis ...

are conflicting. The heartwood is not treatable by the open tank process and seems to have an irregular response to pressure–vac ...

The heartwood from plantation-grown trees is light brown to pinkish brown and is distinct from the paler cream- colored sapwood. ...

Scientific Name Index U.S. Wood Species—Hardwoods Acer macrophyllum Pursh Maple, Bigleaf (Soft Maple Group) Acer negundo L. Boxe ...

Prunus serotina Ehrh. Cherry, Black Quercus alba L. Oak, White (White Oak Group) Quercus bicolor Willd. Oak, Swamp White (White ...

Picea rubens Sarg. Spruce, Red (Spruce, Eastern Group) Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. Spruce, Sitka Pinus banksiana Lamb. Pine, ...

Dryobalanops spp. Kapur Dyera costulata (Miq.) Hook. f. Jelutong Entandrophragma cylindricum (Sprague) Sprague Sapele Eperua spp ...

Literature Cited Haynes, R.W. tech. coord. 2003. An analysis of the timber situation in the United States: 1952 to 2050. Gen. Te ...