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Title Wood handbook : wood as an engineering material / Forest Products Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service
Edition Centennial ed
Published Madison, Wis. : The Laboratory, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations (some color)
Series General technical report FPL ; GTR-190
General technical report FPL ; 190.
Contents Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Wood as a Sustainable Building Material -- Chapter 2: Characteristics and Availability of Commercially Important Woods -- Chapter 3: Structure and Function of Wood -- Chapter 4: Moisture Relations and Physical Properties of Wood -- Chapter 5: Mechanical Properties of Wood -- Chapter 6: Commercial Lumber, Round Timbers, and Ties -- Chapter 7: Stress Grades and Design Properties for Lumber, Round Timber, and Ties -- Chapter 8: Fastenings -- Chapter 9: Structural Analysis Equations -- Chapter 10: Adhesives with Wood Materials: Bond Formation and Performance -- Chapter 11: Wood-Based Composite Materials: Panel Products, Glued-Laminated Timber, Structural Composite Lumber, and Wood-Nonwood Composite Materials -- Chapter 12: Mechanical Properties of Wood-Based Composite Materials -- Chapter 13: Drying and Control of Moisture Content: content and dimensional changes -- Chapter 14: Biodeterioration of Wood -- Chapter 15: Wood Preservation -- Chapter 16: Finishing of Wood -- Chapter 17: Use of Wood in Buildings and Bridges -- Chapter 18: Fire Safety of Wood Construction -- Chapter 19: Specialty Treatments -- Chapter 20: Heat Sterilization of Wood -- Glossary -- Index
Notes "April 2010"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Title from content provider
Subject Wood -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Wood
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
Author Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.)
ISBN 9781523113460
1523113464