Wood Mechanical Properties and Discoloured Heartwood Proportion in Sugar Maple and Yellow Birch Grown in New Brunswick

Rising interest in using wood in non-residential multi-story building structures opens up new opportunities for utilising low-grade hardwoods. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the geographic variation in modulus of elasticity (MOE) and modulus of rupture (MOR) of sugar maple and y...

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Main Authors: Isabelle Duchesne, Manon Vincent, Xiaodong (Alice) Wang, Chhun-Huor Ung, D. Edwin Swift
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: North Carolina State University 2016-01-01
Series:BioResources
Subjects:
MOE
MOR
Online Access:http://ojs.cnr.ncsu.edu/index.php/BioRes/article/view/BioRes_11_1_2007_Duchesne_Discoloured_Heartwood_Proportion_New_Brunswick