Production, Marketing and Use of Finger-Jointed Sawnwood: Proceedings of an International Seminar organized by the Timber Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Held at Hamar,

ISBN-13: 9789401537698 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 282 str.

C. F. L. Prins

Opis

The seminar on the production, marketing and use of finger-jointed sawnwood was held in Hamar from 15 to 19 September 1980 at the invitation of the Government of Norwa;y. It was organized under the auspices of the Timber Committee, a subsidiary body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva, Switzerland. Participants represented the ECE member countries of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norwa;y, Poland, Sweden, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America. Observers from Australia and South Africa attended as well, and the United Nations Organization for Industrial Development (UNIDO) was represented. Mr. R. Birkeland of Norwa;y was elected Chainnan, and Mr. V. Turushev of the USSR Vice-Chainnan. During the seminar, study visits were arranged for participants: to Berger Langmoen A. S. , Brumunddal, whi ch produces sawnwood, planed wood, wooden packaging, building components using finger-jointed timber, parquet flooring and fibreboard; to the Moelven Group, Moelv, which produces modular houses and other types of timber-framed buildings and building panels, sawnwood, glue-laminated products, skis, etc. , as well as a number of types of mechanical equipment and vehicles.

Spis treści

Report of the seminar.- Background Papers.- Production, marketing and use of finger-jointed sawnwood: An overwiew.- List of words and definitions (English/French).- Marketing and applications.- Marketing finger-jointed timber.- Marketing structural finger-jointed sawn lumber in North America (voluntary paper).- Research into and experience of the use of finger-joints in timber structures in Czechoslovakia.- Structural finger-joints.- The structural use of finger-jointing.- Use of finger-jointed timber in housing.- Finger-jointing in non-load-bearing applications (Full paper in French, summary in English).- Non-structural application of finger-jointed timber.- Applied research for mini-finger-joint.- Quality controls, standardization and harmonization.- International acceptance of manufacture, marking and control of finger-jointed structural timber.- Proof loaded finger-joints for structural glued laminated timber.- Some views on quality control.- Structural finger-jointing criteria and performance (Voluntary paper).- Properties and influences.- The influence of production conditions on the strength of finger-joints.- The effect of geometry on the performance of structural finger-joints.- End pressure for fingér-jointing.- Strength of finger-joints.- Mini-finger-joints, 7.5 mm long, according to DIN 68140. Compression and tension stresses arallel to theain. Deformation analysis (Voluntary paper).- Test methods.- Testing of finger-joints in structural timber for quality control.- Trouble-shooting in finger-jointing (Voluntary paper).- Production.- Production of finger-jointed timber, especially in the Federal Republic of Germany.- Adhesives used in South Africa to finger-joint structural timber.- The production of finger-joints in the Netherlands.- Finger-jointing sawn lumber: Techniques and product requirements.- Production and economics of finger-jointing structural timber in Sweden.- Is economic finger-jointing for production of load-bearing structural timbers possible? (Voluntary paper).- Country reports.