Advanced wood engineering: Glulam beams

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-106

  Issa, Camille A ^a   Kmeid, Ziad ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Beams; Glulam; Reinforced; Wood

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; BRITTLENESS; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DUCTILITY; GLUES; LUMBER; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

REINFORCED GLULAM BEAMS; WATERFRONT STRUCTURES; WOOD BEAMS; WOOD ENGINEERING;

WOOD LAMINATES;

BENDING; BRITTLENESS; COMPRESSION STRENGTH; DUCTILITY; GLUE; LAMINATES; LUMBER; WOOD;

EID: 9344232809     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2004.05.013     Document Type: Article

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