Grading Data – Help needed
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]