Earlywood and latewood elastic properties in loblolly pine

Holzforschung

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 531-538

  Cramer, Steven ^a,c   Kretschmann, David ^b   Lakes, Roderic ^a   Schmidt, Troy ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Earlywood; Latewood; Loblolly pine; Modulus of elasticity; Shear modulus; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FORESTRY;

EARLYWOOD; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; TREE RINGS;

SOFTWOODS;

DENSITY; ELASTIC STRENGTH; FIBRILS; PINUS TAEDA; PLANTATIONS; SUMMER WOOD; TREES;

PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 24044497285     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.2005.088     Document Type: Article

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