Wood handbook: Wood as an engineering material

Summarizes information on wood as an engineering material. Presents properties of wood and wood-based products of particular concern to the architect and engineer. Includes discussion of designing with wood and wood-based products along with some pertinent uses.

Titles contained within Wood handbook: Wood as an engineering material

Chapter 1: Wood as a renewable and sustainable resource
Chapter 2: Characteristics and availability of commercially important woods
Chapter 3: Structure and function of wood
Chapter 4: Moisture relations and physical properties of wood
Chapter 5: Mechanical properties of wood
Chapter 6: Commercial lumber, round timbers, and ties
Chapter 7: Stress grades and design properties for lumber, round timber, and ties
Chapter 8: Fastenings
Chapter 9: Structural analysis equations
Chapter 10: Wood adhesives: bond formation and performance
Chapter 11: Wood-based composite materials: panel products, glued laminated timber, structural composite lumber, and wood–nonwood composites
Chapter 12: Mechanical properties of wood-based composite materials
Chapter 13: Drying and control of moisture content and dimensional changes
Chapter 14: Biodeterioration of wood
Chapter 15: Wood preservatives
Chapter 16: Finishing wood
Chapter 17: Use of wood in buildings and bridges
Chapter 18: Fire safety of wood construction
Chapter 19: Specialty treatments
Chapter 20: Heat sterilization of wood

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Forest Products Laboratory. 2021. Wood handbook—wood as an engineering material. General Technical Report FPL-GTR-282. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 543 p