Acoustic assessment of wood quality of raw forest materials - A path to increased profitability

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 6-14

  Wang, Xiping ^a,b   Carter, Peter ^c   Ross, Robert J ^b   Brashaw, Brian K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Fibre Gen   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ASSESSMENT; ACOUSTIC PULSES RESONATING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (NDE); RAW FOREST MATERIALS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; RAW MATERIALS; WOOD;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; HARVESTING; RAW MATERIALS; WOOD PROPERTIES;

EID: 34250317007     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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