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Wood Preservation and Wood Finishing
Wood protection deals with all aspects that increase service life of wood products. As such it deals with protection from fire, chemical degradation,...
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Transparent Wood Materials Properties, Applications, and Fire Behaviour
This book introduces the reader to the history, materials properties, and manufacturing methods of transparent wood biocomposites. After an...
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Wood Biology
Trees are major components of the biosphere and their wood is one of the most important renewable resources. Wood as it exists is the result of an...
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Optical Properties of Wood Measurement Methods and Result Evaluations
This book describes all optical properties of wooden materials, including definitions and measurement methods of optical parameters such as...
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Wood Biodeterioration
Living organisms involved in wood biodeterioration range quite broadly across Eukarya, Bacteria, and Archaea domains with many wood degrading species...
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Wood Chemistry
This chapter gives an overview of the chemical components of wood, more precisely of xylem as a porous material that is able to conduct water and...
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Wood Modification
This chapter presents the technology of chemical and thermal wood modification. It describes fundamental principles as well as practical aspects of...
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Physical Properties of Wood and Wood-Based Materials
This chapter describes the basic physical properties of wood and wood-based materials such as density, thermal properties, electrical properties,...
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Wood and Moisture
Wood is a porous, hygroscopic material that can take up water both within cell walls (cell-wall water) and in the macrovoid structure (capillary...
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Strength Properties of Wood and Wood-Based Materials
Knowledge of the strength of wood and wood-based materials is an important basis for the calculation and dimensioning of wooden products. This...
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Introduction to Wood Science
Wood science covers in particular the areas of the formation and composition as well as the biological, chemical, and physical–mechanical properties...
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Elastic and Inelastic Properties of Wood and Wood-Based Materials
Knowledge of the elastic and inelastic properties of wood and wood-based materials is an important basis for the calculation of deformations of wood...
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Wood Biorefineries
In this chapter, we explore the concept, current status, and prospects of wood biorefineries, and discuss the most important available alternatives...
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Cutting and Disintegration of Wood and Wood-Based Materials
Due to its natural growth habit, wood usually needs to be cut up or shredded for material use. Only then it is possible to produce specially shaped...
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Basics of Wood Drying
Drying is one of the most important processing steps in the production of timber and many of the wood composites. During this process, freshly cut...
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Properties of Transparent Wood
Due to the distinctive structures that result from its natural growth, wood is a commonly utilized structural material with exceptional mechanical...
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Wood Utilization and Environmental Impacts
Whether traditional and emerging innovative wood products and their applications are in fact environmentally friendlier than non-wood products has to...
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Springer Handbook of Wood Science and Technology
This handbook provides an overview on wood science and technology of unparalleled comprehensiveness and international validity.
It describes the...
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Joining and Reassembling of Wood
Commonly the raw material round timber is reduced into smaller parts such as solid wood boards, sheets of veneer, strands, particles, and fibers for...
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Utilization of Wood for Energy
Wood has been a traditional energy source for generation of heat and power since long. The customary form of natural wood fuels are air-seasoned...