The responsibility with the best use of timber material in Brazil and in the world has required a very specific approach in order to provide insightful conditions that favor its processing and its industrial employment in a sustainable manner. In Brazil, the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources - IBAMA is the defining and regulatory body of this activity for rational conservation, including with regard to the issue of registration of preserving timber products. The Timber Tree-Shaped Structural System - ARROW, object of a of Doctoral Thesis research in the...

The waste from the wooden processing has emerged as aggravating contribution to the generation of environmental impacts, encouraging researches that aiming solutions to this problematic of global dimensions. Wooden structures, if not treated properly can present problems that may compromise the purposes for which it was designed, consisting of composite materials in an alternative solution to this problem. This book deals with the fabrication and characterization of composite materials made from wood particles and epoxy resin together with the addition of cement and magnesium silicate...

The OSB is a product derived from wood, developed in the United States of America in 1954, and defined as a panel with oriented particles, which are distributed in multiple layers of a predetermined shape. At the time, OSB was created to replace the plywood panel. However, the bending properties are still less. One way of increasing the bending properties of OSB is the use of composite reinforcing materials. The metal gauze are presented as an alternative form to reinforce the OSB, however, the mesh size, thickness, gauze position and its interaction with the resin (matrix phase) can...