Effect of juvenile wood on strength properties and dimensional stability of black spruce medium-density fiberboard panels

Holzforschung

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Shi, Jun Li ^a,b   Zhang, Shu Yin ^a,b   Riedl, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis of covariance; Black spruce; Fiberboard; Internal bond; Juvenile wood; Linear expansion; Modulus of elasticity; Modulus of rupture; Thickness swell; Water absorption

Indexed keywords

BOND STRENGTH (CHEMICAL); DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; ELASTIC MODULI; PARTICLE BOARD; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; WATER ABSORPTION;

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE (ANCOVA); INTERNAL BOND (IB); LINEAR EXPANSION; MODULUS OF RUPTURE (MOR);

WOOD;

DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; ELASTIC STRENGTH; FIBER BOARDS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PICEA MARIANA; SOFTBOARDS; WATER ABSORPTION; WOOD;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 14044273788     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.2005.001     Document Type: Article

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