Lectures

Please find a copy of my preliminary lecture here regarding engineered wood products, ethics in our field, and a general introduction.

Please find the lecture presentation regarding gross anatomy of trees and wood. This covers the main 'macro' features of wood that you will need to know.

This lecture includes the various cells present in hardwood species that you will need to learn for this course. In addition to knowing their names, please be able to understand their role in tree, and what they look like from the three orthogonal directions (transverse, radial, tangential).

Please find my lecture here regarding softwood anatomy. Please make sure to know all cells presented and their function in a tree.

This lecture covers the makeup of the cell wall itself rather than different cells within the wood. The lecture covers chemical and polymer constituents of wood that will directly impact mechanical and physical properties of wood. 

This lecture introduces the basic mechanical response of wood when being loaded. It looks at the stress-strain diagram of wood being loaded and explains what is physically and chemically happening within the wood when you load it. Furthermore, this lecture introduces mechanical testing of wood which we will complete together in upcoming laboratory excercises.

Please find the lecture regarding wood and water, types of water found in wood, relative humidity, equilibrium moisture content, etc. here.