1st Edition
Wood and Wood-Based Materials for Building A Compendium for Civil Engineers and Architects
1. General Aspects of Using Wood in Construction
2. The Structure of Wood and Wood-Based Materials and Its Modification
3. Structure-properties relations of wood and wood-based materials
4. Overview of the physical-mechanical properties of wood and wood-based materials
5. Understanding the effects of moisture in wood and wood-based materials
6. Density of wood and wood-based materials
7. Other Important Physical Properties of Wood and Wood-Based Materials
8. Elastic and inelastic properties of wood and wood-based materials
9. Strength properties of wood and wood-based materials
10. Durability of wood and wood-based materials
11. Surface treatment
12. Bonding of wood
13. Guidelines for the use of timber in construction
Biography
Peter Niemz is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he previously served as Head of the Wood Physics Group. He is an Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science.
Dick Sandberg is a Mechanical Engineer and Professor of Design and Fabrication of Timber Constructions at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Gjøvik, Norway, and an Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science.
