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PlyWood And Furniture Testing Services

The laboratory has complete in house facility to execute various jobs related to wood & wood products. Wood is valuable raw material and its widely used in furniture, packaging& construction. To ensure the quality of wood our laboratory provides quality checks facilities. Parameters Tested For Wood For Plywood Dimensions, Glue shear, Mycological test, Water resistance, Moisture,Adhesion of plies For Timber Moisture, Density, …

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Shear and Torsion Testing of Wood, Plywood, and Sandwich Constructions

The PI Laboratory has maintained a continuing interest in the development of satisfactory test methods for determining shear characteristics of wood, plywood, adhesives, and more recently sandwich constructions. The anisotropic structure of wood has added to the difficulty of developing test methods that reliably evaluate the desired properties. This paper presents a brief description of the test methods used, traces …

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LVL LVL (laminated veneer lumber) Inspection and Testing

ConditionRelative to the GrainRbRsRXIbendingedgewise along the grain392726,519,523,5bendingflatwise along the grain4535,527,52422,5compressionedgewise along the grain3025,523,519,522compressionacross the grain54,33,56,83,8compressionperpendicular to the plane of veneer sheets51,91,71,91,7tensionedgewise along the grain2526,522,517,516,5tensionacross the grain––0,7––shear along the glue lineedgewise along the grain2,62,62,62,62,6shear along the glue lineacross the grain1,11,11,11,11,1 MOE Е, MPa. Strain along the grain RbRsRXI16 00015 60014 00011 00012 700 Types of LVL UltralamDescriptionApplicationЕ16 / E15All veneers are …

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