Timber
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Timber

Its Mechanical Properties and Factors Affecting Its Structural Use

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Timber

Its Mechanical Properties and Factors Affecting Its Structural Use

About this book

Pergamon Series of Monographs on Furniture and Timber, Volume 8: Timber: Its Mechanical Properties and Factors Affecting its Structural Use focuses on the mechanical and technical properties of timber, including how a tree grows and develops. This book discusses the growth of the tree, structure of wood, fundamental properties, factors affecting strength, structural grading, and seasoning. The strength properties, assessing strength properties, and testing for strength are also covered. The strength of wood varies almost with every species and factors affecting this in relation to working stresses are fully indicated in this text. This publication is intended as an introductory textbook on the mechanical and technical properties of wood, and as such, will be useful to students, architects, builders, and others requiring knowledge on the subject.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Timber: Its Mechanical Properties and Factors Affecting its Structural Use
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Author's Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Introduction
  10. CHAPTER 1. Growth of the Tree
  11. CHAPTER 2. Structure of Wood
  12. CHAPTER 3. Fundamental Properties
  13. CHAPTER 4. Factors Affecting Strength
  14. CHAPTER 5. Structural Grading
  15. CHAPTER 6. Seasoning
  16. CHAPTER 7. Strength Properties
  17. CHAPTER 8. Assessing Strength Properties
  18. CHAPTER 9. Testing for Strength
  19. References
  20. Index