Centennial Edition: Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material
Centennial Edition: Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material by Forest Products Laboratory
English | Apr. 30, 2013 | ISBN: 1484859707 | 509 Pages | PDF | 15 MB
English | Apr. 30, 2013 | ISBN: 1484859707 | 509 Pages | PDF | 15 MB
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.
This handbook was prepared by the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), a research unit within the USDA Forest Service. The FPL, first established in 1910 in Madison, Wisconsin, was the first institution in the world to conduct general research on wood and its utilization. The information that resulted from many of its scientific investigations of wood and wood products over the past century is the primary basis for this handbook. The Wood Handbook was first issued in 1935, and slightly revised in 1939, as an unnumbered publication. Further revisions in 1955, 1974, and 1987 were published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as Agriculture Handbook No. 72. The 1999 revision was published by the FPL as General Technical Report FPL–GTR–113 and reprinted for broader distribution by the Forest Products Society.