Nondestructive evaluation of green wood using stress wave and transverse vibration techniques

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1013-1018

  Halabe, Udaya B ^a   Bidigalu, Gangadhar M ^b   GangaRao, Hota V S ^a   Ross, Robert J ^c  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b Tri State Engineering and MC Inc   (United States)

^c FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic testing; Green wood; Modulus of elasticity; Modulus of rupture; Nondestructive testing; Stress wave; Timber; Ultrasonic testing; Vibration; Wood

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BENDING TESTS; DRYING; ELASTIC MODULI; GRADING; LUMBER; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; QUALITY CONTROL; TIMBER; ULTRASONIC TESTING; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; BENDING (DEFORMATION); CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

CROSS-CORRELATIONS; DYNAMIC TESTING; GREEN WOODS; MODULUS OF RUPTURE; STATIC BENDING; STRESS WAVE; STRESS WAVE VELOCITIES; TRANSVERSE VIBRATIONS; VIBRATION; WAVE VIBRATION;

ELASTIC WAVES; WOOD;

MODULUS OF ELASTICITY (MOE); MODULUS OF RUPTURE (MOR); STRESS WAVE VELOCITY; TRANSVERSE VIBRATION TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0031236713     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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