Abstract: Waste wood sent to landfills represents a potentially valuable resource for construction materials. This paper reports progress in the use of recycled wood aggregate for concrete block. The project goal was to use standard ...

Abstract: Timber rivets are fasteners for glued-laminated timber construction that were first sanctioned for use in the United Stated by adoption in the 1997 National Design Specification for Wood Construction (NDS). Rivet connections ...

Abstract: Application of orthotropic constitutive models to lumber with cross grain requires transformation of coordinates when material axes are not aligned with board axes. This paper presents a procedure to construct the coordinate ...