Structural performance of finger-jointed black spruce lumber with different joint configurations

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 72-76

  Bustos, Cecilia ^a   Beauregard, Robert ^a   Mohammad, Mohammad ^b   Hernández, Roger E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; BENDING STRENGTH; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TENSILE TESTING;

GLUELINES;

LUMBER;

ADHESIVES; BEND STRENGTH; JOINTS; LUMBER; PICEA MARIANA; TENSILE TESTS;

PICEA; PICEA MARIANA; UVARIA CHAMAE;

EID: 0141958905     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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