- Author
-
U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Title
- Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material.
- Coporate
- Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC
- Report
-
LC Catalog No. 85-600532; Agriculture Handbook 72,
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- Book or Conf
- Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material. Agriculture Handbook 72,
466 p.,
1987
- Keywords
-
wood
|
handbooks
|
physical properties
|
mechanical properties
|
lumber
|
plywood
|
moisture
|
drying
|
construction
- Identifiers
- characteristics and availability of woods commercially important to the United States; structure of wood; lumber stress grades and allowable properties; fastenings; structrual analysis formulas; bonding wood and wood products; glued structural members; structural sandwich construction; bent wood members; control of moisture content and dimensional changes; finishing of wood; protection from organisms that degrade wood; wood preservation; round timbers and ties; moisture movement and thermal insulation in light-frame structures; insulation board, hardboard, medium-density fiberboard, and laminated paperboards; wood-base particle panel materials; modified woods and paper-base laminates