Wood is an attractive, versatile, and sustainable construction material with excellent strength
to weight ratio and a lower carbon footprint than other construction materials. One of the …

Various factors affect the bonding quality of elements used for timber construction. This
review includes literature studies and personal experiences related to relevant technological …

Understanding why wood bonds fail is an excellent route toward understanding how to
make them better. Certifying a bonded product usually requires achieving a specific load …

The feasibility of manufacturing cross-laminated timber (CLT) using fast-grown small
diameter Eucalyptus timber was explored in preliminary studies. However, eucalyptus …

The study reports on block shear investigations with bondlines of face-glued laminations
and matched solid wood specimens from hardwood glulam (GLT) beams produced …

Eucalyptus globulus is one of the hardwood species growing in Europe with the best
mechanical properties and great natural durability. In high performance engineered …

European hardwood species such as beech, oak and ash present a potential alternative to
commonly used softwoods in glued engineered wood products. To date, mainly amino-and …

This work establishes the main guidelines to produce high-performance Eucalyptus
globulus Labill finger jointed solid timber and glued laminated timber laths and analyse their …

Eucalyptus globulus Labill stands out as one of the hardwood species produced in Europe
with prominent mechanical properties, which is undergoing a growing interest in extending …

Fracture characterisation under mode I loading of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. bonded joints
with one-component polyurethane adhesive (1C-PUR) is addressed in this work. The …