Estimating the influence of knots on the local longitudinal stiffness in radiata pine structural timber

Wood Science and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 501-509

  Xu, Ping ^a  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STIFFNESS; VOLUME FRACTION;

LONGITUDINAL STIFFNESS;

TIMBER;

EID: 0036914767     PISSN: 00437719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00226-002-0156-2     Document Type: Article

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