Relationship between log and lumber modulus of elasticity

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-92

  Ross, Robert J ^a   Mcdonald, Kent A ^a   Green, David W ^a   Schad, Kristin C ^a  

^a FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

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