A procedure to determine water absorption distribution in wood composite panels

Wood and Fiber Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 286-294

  Xu, Wei ^a   Winistorfer, Paul M ^a   Moschler, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Medium density fiberboard; Oriented strandboard; Particleboard; Thickness swell distribution; Vertical density distribution; Water absorption

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION; FIBERBOARD; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; WATER ABSORPTION;

PARTICLE BOARD;

EID: 0030375588     PISSN: 07356161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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