Heart splitting at crosscutting of eucalypt logs

Journal of Wood Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-6

  Okuyama, Takashi ^a   Doldán, Javier ^b   Yamamoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Ona, Toshihiro ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Atomic Spectrometry   (Uruguay)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus globulus; Eucalyptus grandis; Growth stress; Heart split; Released strain

Indexed keywords

CUTTING; FORESTRY; GROWTH KINETICS; STRAIN GAGES; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

CROSSCUTTING; HEART SPLITTING;

WOOD PRODUCTS;

CUTTING; EUCALYPTUS; GROWTH; HEART WOOD; LOGS; STRAIN GAGES; TREES;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS;

EID: 4043055271     PISSN: 14350211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10086-003-0533-y     Document Type: Article

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