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Grading Data – Help needed

18 December 2019 marlene cramer 0

For the InFutUReWood project we are working on developing new grading rules for recovered timber, underused species and timber from unmanaged forests. Since the development […]

5 Questions for InFutUReWood – the use of timber in the UK

27 November 2019 marlene cramer 0

This is a longer version of a post you can find on the InFutUReWood project website. If you want just a summary – head over […]

An update to EN1912

25 November 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

Contact Dan Ridley-Ellis if you have any comments or can help with what is described below. Visual strength grading of timber is carried out according […]

More on growth rings and density

18 November 2019 marlene cramer 0

Are growth rings useful for predicting density? Project report and poster by Alexandre Monseau, with additional commentary by Marlene Cramer and Dan Ridley-Ellis “Currently studying […]

Properties of UK grown beech

7 November 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

This paper can be read in PRO LIGNO 2019 Volume 15, Number 4 pp. 32-39 along with other papers at the conference. We have a […]

Introducing a new colleague in the InFutUReWood project

1 November 2019 marlene cramer 0

Exactly one month ago today, a new team member joined the Centre for Wood Science and Technology at Edinburgh Napier University. Welcome our new Research […]

Strength classes you won’t find in EN338

30 October 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis 2

Not all strength classes are listed in EN338. Here are the main characteristic properties of some strength classes that appear in machine settings tables for […]

Strength classes C and T

25 October 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis 2

The 2016 version of EN338 brought a few changes. One of these changes was the addition of a table of tension strength classes (T classes). […]

Growth ring width and density of British spruce cladding battens

8 October 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis 1

The UK has a British Standard for external timber cladding, BS8605-1, in which support battens are defined as timber components of a section, grade, and […]

Updates to EN14081-3,-2 and EN384

6 August 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis 0

There is a proposed new version of EN14081-3 out for Enquiry, mostly to provide proper integration of the updated output control rules (compared to the […]

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The Centres for Timber Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University are “Wood Science & Technology (CWST)”, and “Offsite Construction and Innovative Structures (COCIS)”.

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