Failure analysis of wood and wood-based products [electronic resource] / Dirk Lukowsky.
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| Other title: | Schadensanalyse Holz und Holzwerkstoffe. English. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education LLC,
©2015.
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Table of Contents:
- A. About the author
- B. Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Investigation strategy
- Avoiding pitfalls
- Analysis specimens
- Parallel findings
- 3. Methods
- Documentation
- Sample-taking
- Sanding down
- Simulation of production or service conditions
- Wood moisture content
- Physical investigation methods
- Microscopy
- Chemical investigation methods
- 4. Interpretation of features and distributions
- Chronology of findings
- Distribution of features
- Interpretation of cracks and checks
- Interpretation of bonding failures
- Interpretation of discolorations
- 5. Examples of failures
- Undetermined failure causes
- Slope of grain
- Coarse flakes/particles/holes in surface layer of particleboard and fiberboard
- Inadequately compressed adhesive and its consequences
- Failures due to iron
- Acid damage to hpl
- Premature wear of coating
- Did interior environmental conditions cause blistering?
- Diagonal grain orientation as cause of parquet failure
- Unusual distribution of efflorescence
- A. Appendix
- List of abbreviations and conversion of units
- Some comments on acceptable humidity levels
- Scientific names of featured wood species and organisms
- Cas numbers of chemicals
- B. References.