This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the ANC-17 Panel on Plastics for Flight Vehicles of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Commerce.
Difficulties have been encountered in gluing some Southeast
Asian woods using phenolic resin. Extractives in veneers from the
trade groups yellow, white, and red meranti (Shorea, Parashorea,
and Pentacme spp. ), keruing (Dipterocarpus spp. ), and kapur
(Dryobalanops spp. ) were suspected to be able to modify resin cure
and...