The primary purpose of growing rubber tree is to produce latex for rubber and tire industries. However, its wood has become a veritable alternative timber source in Nigeria. Rubber wood …
Wood can be assembled as a bi-layered cross-laminated composite, so called wood bilayers(Rüggeberg and Burgert, 2015). Hereby, the swelling and shrinkage anisotropy enables woodbilayers to act as hygromorphic self-shaping composites …
The anisotropic swelling and shrinking of wood can be taken as a basis for utilizing wood in a smart way. By manufacturing wood bilayers in a cross-ply manner, the dimensional …
