Wood Characteristics Description, Causes, Prevention, Impact on Use
This book offers a broad range of options for technically adapting, handling and processing wood with specific wood characteristics. It starts by discussing wood anatomy and the general factors leading to the formation of wood characteristics. The i
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Wood Characteristics Description, Causes, Prevention, Impact on Use and Technological Adaptation
Wood Characteristics
Christoph Richter
Wood Characteristics Description, Causes, Prevention, Impact on Use and Technological Adaptation
Dr. Christoph Richter Opitzer Weg 20 D-01737 Tharandt Germany
Based on an updated translation of the original German 3rd edition of “Holzmerkmale” published by DRW-Verlag Weinbrenner, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (2010) ISBN 978-3-319-07421-4 ISBN 978-3-319-07422-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-07422-1 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Preface
It was 1995, in Dresden, Germany. I had stopped to linger over the display in a bookstore window. Suddenly, my eye caught the cover of a book with two pictures of spruce discs. My curiosity as a forester was piqued. The title read, “Holzfehler – Die Abweichungen von der normalen Beschaffenheit des Holzes” (“Wood Defects – Deviations from Standard Wood Structure”), by Hermann Knuchel. I hesitated, because, as far as I knew, the book had been published last century, back in the 1930s. This had to be a new version of the 1934 editi
