Timber is one of our most precious, versatile, and vulnerable resources, so using it effectively is important. Knowing your material inside and out is the first step to doing just that. Read about the structure of wood itself, from growth rings to its chemical composition. Learn wood’s physical and mechanical properties, including everything from elasticity to nuclear radiation. This extensive manual includes a section on stress grading as well as thorough descriptions of which fasteners to use and when. It has information on adhesive bonding, biodeterioration, control of moisture content, preservation, fire safety, specialty treatments, and much more. The Encyclopedia of Wood is an essential resource for builders, architects, engineers, and woodworkers.
Encyclopedia Of Wood
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
The United States Department of Agriculture (informally the Agriculture Department or USDA) is the United States federal executive department responsible for developing and executing U.S. federal government policy on farming, agriculture, and food. It aims to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers, promote agricultural trade and production, work to assure food safety, protect natural resources, foster rural communities and end hunger in the United States and abroad.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting resource,
By
This review is from: The Encyclopedia of Wood (Paperback)
For anyone interested in wood, in its ability to withstand stress, its bark, shrinkage, moisture content, fastening it to things, or even its preservation this is a wonderful book. A work of the U.S Department of Agriculture, Forest Service's Forest Product laboratory it is not strictly an encyclopedia but a collection of essays, pictures and descriptions of various aspects of wood.
The first sections detail types of wood, structure of wood and physical properties of wood. Later sections examine more obscure mathematical concepts regarding wood such as stress grades and structural analysis equations. Important chapters detail types of fastenings, drying and control of moisture as well as protection and preservation. An important chapter examines the use of wood in buildings and bridges. This is not a book that is a `how to' regarding wood. It is also not a book about all the types of wood in the world or how to identify all of them necessarily. It is rather a collection of sometimes seemingly unsystematically collected material on wood and many aspects of it. An interesting book. Seth J. Frantzman
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not for Everyone,
By
This review is from: The Encyclopedia of Wood (Paperback)
The Encyclopedia of wood is a good reference text for forestry students or those wishing to learn about the scientific aspects of many wood species. For those wanting reference material for wood working it is too technical. There are many other books available better suited for crafts people.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Encyclopedia of wood,
By
This review is from: The Encyclopedia of Wood (Paperback)
A Government supplied book that is very thorough, goes into genetic detail, but is in black and white
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
(learn more)
parallel dicular, clear wood properties, growth ring stripe, rupture elasticity load, white ash group, wood side plates, ovendry weight, early paint failure, commercially important woods, fingerjointed lumber, dowel bearing strength, proportional limit load, side member thickness, preservative retention levels, ovendry wood, nonpressure processes, wood adherends, western true firs, drawal resistance, borer hazard, pau marfim, antishrink efficiency, meranti groups, softwood lumber standard, narrow sapwood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Forest Products Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Pine, New York, Forest Products Journal, American Wood, Engineered Wood Association, Moisture Specific, Forest Products Society, Great Lake States, American Forest, Board of Review, Central America, Modulus Modulus Work, Paper Association, Rocky Mountain, West Conshohocken, American Institute of Timber Construction, American Lumber Standard Committee, National Grading Rule, New England, American Society of Civil Engineers, Douglas Fir New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
parallel dicular, clear wood properties, growth ring stripe, rupture elasticity load, white ash group, wood side plates, ovendry weight, early paint failure, commercially important woods, fingerjointed lumber, dowel bearing strength, proportional limit load, side member thickness, preservative retention levels, ovendry wood, nonpressure processes, wood adherends, western true firs, drawal resistance, borer hazard, pau marfim, antishrink efficiency, meranti groups, softwood lumber standard, narrow sapwood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Forest Products Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Pine, New York, Forest Products Journal, American Wood, Engineered Wood Association, Moisture Specific, Forest Products Society, Great Lake States, American Forest, Board of Review, Central America, Modulus Modulus Work, Paper Association, Rocky Mountain, West Conshohocken, American Institute of Timber Construction, American Lumber Standard Committee, National Grading Rule, New England, American Society of Civil Engineers, Douglas Fir New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
So You'd Like to...
|
|
