Modeling the continuous pressing process for wood-based composites

Wood and Fiber Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 456-468

  Thoemen, Heiko ^a   Humphrey, Philip E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Computer simulation; Continuous pressing; Density profile development; Product and process innovations; Rheology; Thermodynamics; Wood based composites

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; PRESSING (FORMING); RHEOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

WOOD-BASED COMPOSITES;

WOOD;

ADHESION; COMPOSITES; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; PRESSING; RHEOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; WOOD;

EID: 0043127277     PISSN: 07356161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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