Summarizes information on wood as an engineering material.
Presents properties of wood and wood-based products
of particular concern to the architect and engineer. Includes
discussion of designing with wood and wood-based products
along with some pertinent uses.
This symposium dealt primarily with one important aspect of wood quality, namely specific gravity as determined in standing timber by the increment core sampling method. It covered the status of research in this area, the importance of the work, present and potential uses for wood density data, and the need...