Decay resistance of out-of-service utility poles as related to the distribution of residual creosote content

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 11-12, 2000, Pages 64-68

  Roliadi, Han ^a   Hse, Chung Y ^b,c   Choong, Elvin T ^a,c   Shupe, Todd F ^a,c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c FOREST PRODUCTS SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREOSOTE CONTENT;

BIODEGRADATION; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; POLES; RECYCLING; WEATHERING; WOOD;

DECAY (ORGANIC);

EID: 0034317526     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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