Acoustic Inspection of Timber

The ability to determine wood quality using non-destructive tests has enormous potential for the forestry industry in both research and commercial applications. This thesis describes some of the theory of acoustic waves in wood and how wood stiffness can be estimated by measuring the velocity of aco...

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Main Author: Woods, Simon Nicholas
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Electrical and Computer Engineering 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3679