Maximum compression ratios of softwoods produced in Eastern Canada

9th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2006, WCTE 2006

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 2235-2241

  Gong, Meng ^a   Nakatani, Makoto ^b   Yang, Yin ^a   Afzal, Muhammad T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABIES BALSAMEA; BALSAM FIR; CHANGE IN THICKNESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW DENSITY; PEAK LOAD; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VISIBLE CRACKS; WHITE PINE;

CRACKS; SOFTWOODS; TIMBER;

COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY);

EID: 84870022255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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