The effects of previous drying and extractives on the radial and tangential shrinkage of outerwood, middlewood, and corewood of two sweetgum trees

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 94-97

  Shupe, Todd F ^a,c   Choong, Elvin T ^a,c   Gibson, Mark D ^b,c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Louisiana Forest Prod Lab

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