The new material, created by InventWood, is made by blending regular timber with chemicals and compressing the molecular structure.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect generated by a thermal treatment on the dimensional changes and compression behavior of three wood species from commercial plantations ...

Although lightweight and easy to use, balsa wood is also soft and absorbent. It is not the best wood choice when you need ...

Thus, bamboos are considered an alternative source of wood to cope with the shortage in the availability ... density, volume, tensile strength and compression. Fiber coefficients 1 1 WF: wall fraction ...

Most widely used adhesives are toxic and derived from petroleum, but researchers have come up with a safe, recyclable ...

Creative wood recycling takes center stage in this impressive build of a large table crafted entirely from scrap wood pieces. Careful selection and precise cutting of offcuts ensure each component ...

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic ...

THE swelling and shrinkage or ‘working’ of wood under varying atmospheric humidity is an important property of the material, and at most laboratories devoted to the study of wood the ...

Junior Taurean York and senior Scooby Williams are as good as it get atop the depth chart. However, in the SEC, speed, vision, and the ability to stop the run and cover the middle of the field are ...

In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material ... that has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength ...