Hybrid poplar as a feedstock for wood-plastic composites

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 61-65

  Englund, Karl ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOREST PRODUCTS SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(PL) PROPERTIES; CELL STRUCTURING; COLLAPSE (DRYING); EXTRUSION PROCESSING; FOREST PRODUCTS; HYBRID POPLAR; MAPLE WOOD; POLYPROPYLENE (PP); POPULUS SPP.; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS (SEM); TEST RESULTS; THERMAL STABILITY; TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER (TSE); WOOD FLOUR (WF); WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITE (WPC); WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITES (WPCS);

ASPECT RATIO; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; EXTRUSION; FORMING; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; HIGH ENERGY FORMING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; RAW MATERIALS; SCANNING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; WOOD;

WOOD PRODUCTS;

ACER; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; EXTRUSION; GRAVIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMENS; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASTICS; POLYMERS; POLYPROPYLENE; RAW MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WATER; WOOD; WOOD PRODUCTS;

ACER; POPULUS;

EID: 45849112939     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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