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Failure analysis of wood and wood-based products /

Written by an expert in the areas of failure analysis, coatings, and wood preservatives, this practical guide presents innovative ways to analyze obvious wood failure using a full range of forensic analysis methods.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lukowsky, Dirk (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2015]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.