Growth stress, its measurement and effects

Australian Forestry

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 127-135

  Yang, Jun Li ^a   Waugh, Gary ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Growth strain; Growth stress; Sawlog; Wood quality

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; PRODUCTIVITY; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; STRESS ANALYSIS;

GROWTH STRESS;

WOOD PRODUCTS;

EUCALYPTUS; LOGS; PLANTATIONS; WOOD PROPERTIES;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 0035359795     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2001.10676176     Document Type: Article

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