Forced wood

Acetylation of wood – A review

Wood is a porous three dimensional, hydroscopic, viscoelastic, anisotropic bio-polymer composite composed of an interconnecting matrix of cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin with minor amounts of inorganic elements and organic extractives. Some, but not all, of the cell wall polymer hydroxyl groups are accessible to moisture and these accessible hydroxyls form hydrogen bonds with water. As the...

Properties of Wood and Structural Wood Products

Wood differs from other construction materials because it is produced in a living tree. As a result, wood possesses material properties that may be significantly different from other materials normally encountered in structural design. Although it is not necessary to have an in-depth knowl­ edge of wood anatomy and properties, it is necessary for the engineer to have a general understanding of ...

Forced Orientation of Graphs

Forced Snaking

We study spatial localization in the real subcritical Ginzburg-Landau equation ut = m0u + Q(x)u + uxx + d|u|u − |u|u with spatially periodic forcing Q(x). When d > 0 and Q ≡ 0 this equation exhibits bistability between the trivial state u = 0 and a homogeneous nontrivial state u = u0 with stationary localized structures which accumulate at the Maxwell pointm0 = −3d/16. When spatial forcing is i...

Duncan Wood

Mr. Duncan Wood, formerly Consultant Surgeon to e Royal Hospital, Bristol, Cossham Memorial HosBristol, and to Bridgwater Hospital, Somerset, 'ed on July 24th, 1969, at the age of 82. He was born on September 2nd, 1886, at iCorsham, J'tshire, where his father was in General Practice. ? was educated at the Imperial Service College, ^ich was at Windsor in those days. From there he ?nt to the Lond...