Overview
- Unique book that looks at the properties of wood in architecture, engineering, acoustics and musical instruments
- Describes environmental acoustics and offers acoustics methods for the characterization of the elastic behaviour of wood and for the assessment of wood quality
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Wood Science (SSWOO)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Environmental Acoustics
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Front Matter
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Material Characterization
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Front Matter
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Quality Assessment
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
From the reviews of the 1st edition:
"It will surely remain the most comprehensive work in this field for a long time to come. It belongs on the bookshelf of every material scientist and structural engineer."
CAS Journal, USA
"(...) the author has done an admirable job, collecting, organizing, and reviewing the disparate literature on most aspects of the Acoustics of Wood."
Journal of the Acoustical Society of Amerika, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
2005 Silver medal "Société d'Encouragement au Progrès" Paris, France
1993-1994 cited in Who's Who - Publications Board
1999 Professor - honorific- University Transylvania- Brasov, Roumania
1978-2005 senior Scientist at INRA -Centre de Recherches Forestières de Nancy, France
since 1979- participation to numerous international conferences on nondestructive testing, ultrasonics, wood, musical instruments
- 1984 Ph D thesis - Dr. Ing. on "ultrasonics and wood" -Institut Supérieur de Matériaux, St. Ouen- Paris, France
1962 diploma on "wood mechanics " Polytechnic Institute, University Transylvania, Brasov, Roumania
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Acoustics of Wood
Authors: Voichita Bucur
Series Title: Springer Series in Wood Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30594-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-26123-0Published: 20 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06555-2Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-30594-1Published: 09 March 2006
Series ISSN: 1431-8563
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 394
Additional Information: Original edition published in 1995 by CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, USA
Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, general, Wood Science & Technology, Acoustics, Forestry, Classical Mechanics