Prediction of wood stiffness, strength, and shrinkage in juvenile wood of radiata pine

Wood Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 237-257

  Ivković, Miloš ^a   Gapare, Washington J ^a   Abarquez, Aljoy ^a   Ilic, Jugo ^b   Powell, Michael B ^c   Wu, Harry X ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Forest and Wood Products Australia   (Australia)

^c Southern Tree Breeding Association   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VELOCITIES; CORE DENSITIES; DRY WOODS; JUVENILE WOODS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LONGITUDINAL SHRINKAGES; LOW COSTS; MICROFIBRIL ANGLES; MODULUS OF RUPTURES; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; RADIATA PINES; SOUND WAVES; SPIRAL GRAINS; STATIC MODULUS; TREE BREEDINGS; WOOD DENSITIES; WOOD STIFFNESS; WOOD STRENGTHS; YOUNG TREES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTICS; FORESTRY; RAPID SOLIDIFICATION; SHRINKAGE; STIFFNESS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

WOOD;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELASTIC STRENGTH; FORESTRY; PINUS RADIATA; SHRINKAGE; STIFFNESS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WOOD; WOOD DENSITY;

RADIATA;

EID: 67349159382     PISSN: 00437719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00226-008-0232-3     Document Type: Article

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