Heat and mass transfer in wood composite panels during hot pressing. Part II. Modeling void formation and mat permeability

Wood and Fiber Science

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 242-257

  Dai, Chunping ^a   Yu, Changming ^a   Zhou, Xiaoyan ^a  

^a FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consolidation and modeling; Hot pressing; Permeability; Porosity; Void volume; Wood composites

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; CONSOLIDATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; HEAT TRANSFER; HOT PRESSING; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POROSITY; STRUCTURAL PANELS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

MAT DENSITY; MAT PERMEABILITY; STRAND DIMENSIONS; VOID FORMATION; WOOD COMPOSITE PANELS; WOOD COMPOSITES; WOOD STRAND MATS;

WOOD PRODUCTS;

COMPOSITES; CONSOLIDATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HOT PRESSING; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PANELS; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; THICKNESS; VOID VOLUME; WOOD DENSITY; WOOD PRODUCTS; WOOD PROPERTIES;

EID: 18844409822     PISSN: 07356161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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