Design life for wood and wood-based products
The use of mass timber construction can result in environmental and cost-saving advantages. This research summary examines how the service life of wood products is based on different and complex interactions between end use and interacting or degrading parameters.
Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Compliance with EC regulations
- Changes in requirements
- Legislation and biocidal products
- Advanced treatment methods
- LCAs, EPDs and future assessments
- Service life prediction: lab and field-based testing
- COST Action FP1303 and how this has helped advanced design life
- Examples of design life requirements for various products
- Conclusions
- References
Suggested Reading
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Structural use of hardwoods
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Non-destructive testing of timber
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