While the popular oak is generally well-priced and ... a standard used by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) to measure the hardness of wood. Simply put: the higher the number ...

Although lumber does show promise as a renewable alternative to structural materials such as steel and concrete, it still ...

One of those once-mysterious materials that have come to dominate the market in relatively short order, engineered wood is an ...

With more than 181.5 billion tons of wood produced globally each year, a new method could revolutionize how we build ...

Researchers wanted to determine if adding extremely hard minerals at the nanoscale could make the walls of wood cells ...

With more than 181.5 billion tons of wood produced globally each year, a new method could revolutionize how we build sustainably. By infusing red oak with ferrihydrite using a simple, low-cost process ...