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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"engineered wood products"”.
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Methodology for the Visual Inspection of Selected Engineered Wood Products and Connector Hardware for Prescriptive Non-Compliance at the Pre-Drywall Stage of Residential Construction
The use of engineered wood products (EWP) in residential construction has increased in recent years. Most specifications for the installation of these components are found in proprietary manufacturer literature rather than in the building code. Although some home inspections include EWP …
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Seismic design of a current woodframe structure and study of innovative products and damping systems in wood construction
Wood structures have seen resurgence in popularity over the past several decades, especially in Western States of America, such as California. The industry keeps creating new structural wood products of exceptional strength, versatility, and reliability. Woodframe structures offer a more …
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Lean Management: Awareness, Implementation Status, and Need for Implementation Support in Virginia's Wood Industry
During the last decades, the U.S. wood products (NAICS 321) and furniture manufacturing (NAICS 337) industries have been greatly affected by economic cycles, rising production and transportation costs, changing buyer habits, and, arguably, most powerfully, increasing global competition. As a …
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Variations in low-grade wood modification and stress lamination
… are expected to yield nearly 30% more softwood than current levels in the coming decades. These are relatively fast-growing trees, yielding low-grade wood that is incompatible with standards for glue-based lamination. Alongside this forecasted increase, there is a major worldwide shift …
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Factors Affecting the Structural Integrity of Wood-Based Composites: Elevated Temperature and Adhesive Bonding
… factors that affect the structural integrity of wood-based composites. Wood-based composites exposed to fire may decompose due to the elevated temperatures, resulting in a degradation in performance. Thermal modelling can only predict the structural integrity of construction materials in fire if …
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Study of VOCs Transport and Storage in Porous Media and Assemblies
… humidity from 20% to 50% and 70%.</p> <p>Engineered wood products such as particleboard have widely been used with wood veneer and laminate to form multilayer assembly work surfaces or panels. The multilayer model study in this dissertation comprised both numerical and experimental …
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Modeling VOCs Emissions from Multi-layered Structural Insulated Panels(SIPs)
… constructed houses that utilize fewer engineered wood products. OSB emits pentanal and hexanal, two odorous aldehydes. These contaminants originate in the wood drying process through the breakdown of wood tissue and are, thus, inherent to most engineered wood products. The PSF in SIPs …