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Its Nature and Behaviour
Timber: Its Nature and Behaviour adopts a materials science approach to timber and comprehensively examines the relationship between the performance o...
Structure, Properties, Conversion, and Use, Seventh Edition
For nearly 60 years, Timber: Structure, Properties, Conversion, and Use has been the authoritative text on timber technology. Now in its seventh editi...
Contains sections on properties of main varieties of softwood and hardwood (moisture, density, strength, conductivity), on seasoning and wood preserva...
The Nature and Behaviour of Structural Materials
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Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF)
One of the newer wood-based panels, medium density fibreboard (MDF) is now produced in massive volumes throughout the world. Its popularity is due pri...
Plywood
Plywood is not only the oldest of the range of wood-based panels but it is also the most variable panel product, encompassing a wide range of timber s...
Particleboard (Chipboard)
About 2 million cubic metres of particleboard (chipboard) are consumed each year in building applications in the UK. This Digest describes this establ...
Cement-bonded Particleboard
With its high stiffness, high durability, high resistance to moisture, excellent reaction to fire performance and very good sound insulation propertie...
Selection
Wood-based panels must provide adequate performance at an acceptable price. Selection from the wide range of panels now available is not an easy task....
Recommendations for Use
Oriented Strand Board (OSB)
As far as the UK and the rest of Europe are concerned, oriented strand board (OSB) has come of age. It is now recognised as a wood-based panel in its ...
Hardboard, Medium Board and Softboard
There is a continuous spectrum of wood-based products within a density range of 200 to 1000 kg/m3 produced by the wet-process method of fibreboard pro...