Development of characteristic value for compressive strength properties of selected Malaysian tropical hardwood timber / Anis Azmi

Timber is one of the renewable and recyclable natural resource and commonly used in structural, outdoor, indoor equipment and furniture industry. It is not only a renewable and recyclable resource but also energy-efficient compared to other materials such as steel and concrete in term of material pr...

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Main Author: Azmi, Anis
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Language:English
Published: 2019
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/83832/1/83832.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.838322024-01-31T07:17:54Z Development of characteristic value for compressive strength properties of selected Malaysian tropical hardwood timber / Anis Azmi 2019 Azmi, Anis Timber is one of the renewable and recyclable natural resource and commonly used in structural, outdoor, indoor equipment and furniture industry. It is not only a renewable and recyclable resource but also energy-efficient compared to other materials such as steel and concrete in term of material production, thus making it as a lowest embodied energy material. Essentially, timber plays an important role that acts as carbon sink in order to reduce carbon emission. In construction industry, timber often is used as trusses, beams, joists and many others. Usage of timber as structural material is not new, in fact it was used over centuries ago. As time passes, developments in timber engineering are expanding rapidly with various types of new innovation timber components as a structural material that enabling timber to compete with other engineering material in building forms. 2019 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/83832/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/83832/1/83832.pdf text en public phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Civil Engineering Ahmad, Zakiah
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advisor Ahmad, Zakiah
description Timber is one of the renewable and recyclable natural resource and commonly used in structural, outdoor, indoor equipment and furniture industry. It is not only a renewable and recyclable resource but also energy-efficient compared to other materials such as steel and concrete in term of material production, thus making it as a lowest embodied energy material. Essentially, timber plays an important role that acts as carbon sink in order to reduce carbon emission. In construction industry, timber often is used as trusses, beams, joists and many others. Usage of timber as structural material is not new, in fact it was used over centuries ago. As time passes, developments in timber engineering are expanding rapidly with various types of new innovation timber components as a structural material that enabling timber to compete with other engineering material in building forms.
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author Azmi, Anis
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Development of characteristic value for compressive strength properties of selected Malaysian tropical hardwood timber / Anis Azmi
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title Development of characteristic value for compressive strength properties of selected Malaysian tropical hardwood timber / Anis Azmi
title_short Development of characteristic value for compressive strength properties of selected Malaysian tropical hardwood timber / Anis Azmi
title_full Development of characteristic value for compressive strength properties of selected Malaysian tropical hardwood timber / Anis Azmi
title_fullStr Development of characteristic value for compressive strength properties of selected Malaysian tropical hardwood timber / Anis Azmi
title_full_unstemmed Development of characteristic value for compressive strength properties of selected Malaysian tropical hardwood timber / Anis Azmi
title_sort development of characteristic value for compressive strength properties of selected malaysian tropical hardwood timber / anis azmi
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department Faculty of Civil Engineering
publishDate 2019
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/83832/1/83832.pdf
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