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A Handbook of softwoods

(Building Research Establishment report)

Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Much of the technical information contained in this volume has been derived from tests at the Building Research Establishment, Princes Risborough Laboratory, or at similar research institutions. Laboratory tests are necessarily on a limited amount of timber. Although care is taken to obtain as nearly as possible average material for test, it should be understood that the properties of any timber are liable to considerable variation according to conditions of growth. Paragraphs concerned with the description of the trees and the natural distribution of the species have necessarily been based largely on published information. Information concerning uses has been compiled from many sources. Though care has been taken to obtain confirmatory evidence, wherever possible, of all information from outside sources, the Laboratory cannot vouch for its absolute accuracy. In cases of doubt, however, the policy has been to err of the side of caution.

Table of Contents

  • The weights of timbers
  • shrinkage and movement
  • wood bending properties
  • strength properties - maximum bending strength (equivalent fibre stress at maxiumum load), stiffness (modulus of elasticity), energy consumed to total fracture (total work), resistance to suddenly applied loads (impact), maximum compressive strength, parallel to grain, resistance to indentation (hardness), shearing strength, resistance to cleavage (splitting), effect of moisture content on mechanical properties
  • defects caused by wood-boring insects - ambrosia (pinhole borer) beetles (platypodidae and scolytidae), longhorn beetles (cerambycidae), wood-wasps (siricidae), jewel beetles (buprestidae), powder-post beetles (bostrychidae and lyctidae), furniture beetles (anobiidae), termites (white ants) (order isoptera)
  • resistance to marine borers
  • natural durability
  • amenability of preservative treatment - permeable, moderately resistant, resistant, extremely resistant
  • working properties
  • veneer and plywood
  • uses
  • the timbers
  • appendices - types of saws, kiln schedules
  • index to timbers

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