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100-Level Construction . . . a Novel Marketing Concept
A concept called 100-level construction is described. It is based on the fact that there is a range of quality characteristics within any given lumber or plywood grade. Homeowner and […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1967 |
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1973 Plant-Site Observations of Asian Plywood Glue Extenders
Fifteen samples of glue extender flours collected from Asian plywood plants in the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan during the HPMA Orient Study Tour in October 1973 were analyzed. The […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1974 |
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A Changing Hardwood Market: the Furniture Industry
In 1960, about 2.9 billion board feet of wood was consumed in furniture. Hardwoods accounted for 82 percent of all the lumber used. Changing styles and designs account for most […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1965 |
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A Continuous Method of Scarf Jointing Plywood Panels
Continuous plywood panels, 4 feet wide, are manufactured by scarf jointing standard panels sawed 98 or 99 inches long, curing in a radio-frequency press and sizing with a traveling cut-off […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1958 |
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A Look At Wood Engineering Since 1957
This review of literature on engineering design for wood products lists 215 publications. Commentary briefly abstracts and relates the literature under headings of Working Stresses, Fastenings, Consideration of the Environment, […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1962 |
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A mill study of the quality, yield, and mechanical properties of plywood produced from fast-grown loblolly pine
Due to the increasing demand for wood fiber as well as the desire to produce fiber using shorter rotation ages (30 to 35 years) efforts have been made to greatly […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1987 |
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A New and Revolutionary Method of Allocating Costs to Veneer Grades
The cost accounting method referred to as “Cost Basis 3/8-inch” is inadequate because it does not recognize cost differences due to grades of panels produced. A new method is proposed […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1958 |
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A New Approach to Quality Control in the Manufacture of Exterior Softwood Plywood
A present day technique of using average wood failure to predict the long term durability of exterior plywood can be simplified through the use of a relationship between average wood […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1974 |
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A New Fiber-Overlay Process for Plywood
The greatest shortcoming of softwood plywood is the poor quality of the surfaces even after sanding. Hardboard can be laminated to 3-ply plywood in order to improve surfaces but this […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1968 |
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A New Method for Evaluating Interior Plywood
The cyclic delamination test of CS-45-55 for interior plywood was found to be insensitive to gluing variables. For research purposes a more discriminating cyclic delamination test was devised, using a […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1955 |
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A New Method for Testing Wood Adhesives: Part I. the Specimen
Analysis of the block-shear and plywood-shear techniques for testing gluelines showed that the wood is highly stressed during testing whereas stresses are concentrated at the glue bond in many constructions […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1955 |
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A New Performance Test for Interior Plywood and Its Application to Panels Containing White-Pocket Veneer
A new test is described for DFPA plywood containing white-pocket. Two-by-five-inch specimens with the grain of the outer plies parallel to length shall be submerged in water at room temperature […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1959 |
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A New Type Screened Dryer for Rotary Peeled Veneers
In drying Australian veneer it was found that roller and mesh belt mechanical dryers had too high an installed cost per unit output, while a counter-flow progressive kiln system, using […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1955 |
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A Panel Discussion on Plywood Automation
Few softwood plywood plants are taking advantage of all of the new equipment available to improve the efficiency of charging the lathe, peeling, offbearing, dryer feeding, detecting moisture, jointing, edge […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1960 |
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A Plug Test for Plywood Lumber Composites
A plug shear test technique has been found adaptable for testing gluelines in plywood lumber assemblies. This technique, as compared with the standard block shear method, simplifies the preparation of […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1973 |
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A Progress Report . . . Glues and Gluing, 1958
A new magazine, “Adhesives Age”, and American Society for Testing Materials Sub-committee X of Wood Adhesives were formed this year. Fast-setting Eastman No. 910, a cyanoacrylate adhesive, was the only […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1959 |
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A Quantitative Approach to Plywood Production Scheduling
In a hypothetical plywood plant, customer orders for the following week are received on Friday, usually 15 to 25 orders representing about 75 percent of the capacity of the plant. […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1970 |
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A Rapid Delamination Test for Plywood
The rapid delamination test is based primarily upon an automatic test machine developed by the author. The machine test method is easy, fast, and not inhibited by the 8-hour working […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1958 |
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A softwood plywood linear programming matrix structured for a microcomputer environment
A matrix structure for solving microcomputer-based linear programming models of softwood plywood mills was developed. Machine centers, product components, product prices, and market restrictions were included. A unique procedure was […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1989 |
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A Study of Certain Operating and Material Variables of the 25-Foot Tunnel Flamespread Test
Six operating and one material variable of the 25-foot tunnel furnace test method (ASTM E-84) were studied using 3/4 inch particleboard. The variables of draft velocity, intake gate height, material […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1973 |
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A Study on the Cause for Variation in Plywood Bond Quality with Open Assembly Time
No change in number average molecular weight occurred in phenol-formaldehyde (PF) resin after an open assembly time as long as 4 hours. Rates of quinone methide formation in PF resin […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1972 |
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Accelerated Aging Methods for Exterior Plywood Faced with Southeast Asian Hardwood Veneers
This study compared five aging methods for detecting unsatisfactory gluebonds in exterior plywood faced with Southeast Asian hardwood veneers. The methods were: vacuum-pressure soak (PS 1-74); standard boil (PS 1-74) […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1978 |
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Accelerated Aging of Adhesives in Plywood-Type Joints
This research was undertaken to determine if accelerated aging might provide a means of predicting long-term durability of adhesive-bonded plywood joints. The degrading influences of moisture, temperature, and cyclic swelling […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1965 |
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Accelerated and 5-Year Exposure Tests on Exterior Type Poplar Plywood
A study of exterior poplar plywood exposed outdoors for 5 years showed that a wood failure estimate of bond quality had the same meaning in poplar as in Douglas-fir plywood […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1969 |
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Adhesive Bonded Refrigerator-Freight Cars
The Unicel car described in this paper is in effect a continuous box girder enclosing a three-dimensional space approximately 50 feet long, 9 feet high., and 9 feet wide. It […]
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Forest Products Journal | 1951 |