Chestnut wood in compression perpendicular to the grain: Non-destructive correlations for test results in new and old wood

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1617-1627

  Lourenço, Paulo B ^a   Feio, Artur O ^a   Machado, José S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ancient structures; Chestnut wood; Compression perpendicular to the grain; Non destructive methods; Pilodyn; Resistograph; Ultrasonic testing

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; LINEAR REGRESSION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

ANCIENT STRUCTURES; CHESTNUT WOOD; PILODYN; RESISTOGRAPH;

WOOD;

COMPRESSION STRENGTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC TESTS; WOOD;

EID: 33847633551     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2006.07.011     Document Type: Article

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