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  2. Half-value layer - Wikipedia

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    A material's half-value layer (HVL), or half-value thickness, is the thickness of the material at which the intensity of radiation entering it is reduced by one half. [1] HVL can also be expressed in terms of air kerma rate (AKR), rather than intensity: the half-value layer is the thickness of specified material that, "attenuates the beam of radiation to an extent such that the AKR is reduced ...

  3. Harbor Freight Tools - Wikipedia

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    Harbor Freight Tools, commonly referred to as Harbor Freight, is an American privately held tool and equipment retailer, headquartered in Calabasas, California. It operates a chain of retail stores, as well as an e-commerce business. The company employs over 28,000 people in the United States, [5] and has over 1,500 locations in 48 states. [6] [7]

  4. Oriented strand board - Wikipedia

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    The number of layers placed is determined partly by the thickness of the panel, but is limited by the equipment installed at the manufacturing site. Individual layers can also vary in thickness to give different finished panel thicknesses; typically, a 15 cm (5.9 in) layer will produce a 15 mm (0.59 in) panel thickness [ citation needed ] .

  5. Lumber prices are plunging. Blame the record drop in U.S ...

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    Lumber’s price drop has been particularly dramatic in just the last 90 days in the futures market, with contract prices for July falling 28% to $466 per thousand board feet (futures prices are ...

  6. Laminated veneer lumber - Wikipedia

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    Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is an engineered wood product that uses multiple layers of thin wood assembled with adhesives. It is typically used for headers , beams , rimboard , and edge-forming material.

  7. Janka hardness test - Wikipedia

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    For hardwood flooring, the test usually requires an 80 mm × 150 mm (3 in × 6 in) sample with a thickness of at least 6–8 mm, and the most commonly used test is the ASTM D1037. When testing wood in lumber form, the Janka test is always carried out on wood from the tree trunk (known as the heartwood), and the standard sample (according to ...

  8. Quarter sawing - Wikipedia

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    The William Ritter Lumber Company (1890–1960), famous for its Appalachian oak flooring and other products, used a modified technique to reduce waste: bark and a few boards were removed from two opposite sides of the log; the log was cut in half (possibly, four quarters); each piece was placed on the flat side and "quartersawn" lumber was cut ...

  9. Cross-laminated timber - Wikipedia

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    Thermal insulation – CLT panels provide air tightness and great thermal insulation to buildings as the thermal conductivity (U) of a panel is approximately 0.3458 W/m 2 K. [18] Other common building materials can have U values ranging from 0.4 to 2.5 W/m 2 K. [19] The various layers of wood also serve as a thermal mass, which can help reduce ...