The Forest Products Society (FPS) is pleased to cooperate with the FPL to present this newly updated edition in hard copy. This 2010 edition is your one-stop source for information on wood as an engineering material and offers content such as:• Properties of wood and wood-based products • Design information for architects and engineers • Wood and non-wood composites • Wood-moisture relationships and wood durability
...plus NEW CONTENT on:• Wood as an environmentally responsible, sustainable building material • Heat-treating and sterilization procedures for wood infected by invasive insect species • A special COLOR chapter on low-magnification micrographs of cross sections of commercial wood species