On horizontal density variation in randomly-formed short-fibre wood composite boards

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-64

  Dai, Chunping ^a   Steiner, Paul R ^b  

^a FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Horizontal density variation; Modelling; Wood composites

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WOOD;

HORIZONTAL DENSITY VARIATION; LOCAL POINT DENSITY VARIANCE; POINT AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION; RANDOMLY FORMED SHORT FIBER WOOD COMPOSITE; ZONE DENSITY VARIANCE;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0030824973     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-835X(96)00094-2     Document Type: Article

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