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  2. Plywood - Wikipedia

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    The most commonly used thickness range is from 1 ⁄ 8 to 3 inches (3.2–76.2 mm). The sizes of the most commonly used plywood sheets are 4 by 8 feet (1,220 mm × 2,440 mm) [20] which was first used by the Portland Manufacturing Company, who developed modern veneer core plywood for the 1905 Portland World Fair. A common metric size for a sheet ...

  3. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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    Timber-framed structures differ from conventional wood-framed buildings in several ways. Timber framing uses fewer, larger wooden members, commonly timbers in the range of 15 to 30 cm (6 to 12 in), while common wood framing uses many more timbers with dimensions usually in the 5- to 25-cm (2- to 10-in) range.

  4. Cordwood construction - Wikipedia

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    Cordwood masonry wall detail. The method is sometimes called stackwall because the effect resembles a stack of cordwood. A section of a cordwood home. Cordwood construction (also called cordwood masonry or cordwood building, alternatively stackwall or stovewood particularly in Canada) is a term used for a natural building method in which short logs are piled crosswise to build a wall, using ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Oldsmobile V8 engine - Wikipedia

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    The Oldsmobile engine was very similar to the Buick engine, but not identical: it had larger wedge combustion chambers with flat-topped (rather than domed) pistons, six bolts rather than five per cylinder head, and slightly larger intake valves; the valves were actuated by shaft-mounted rocker arms like the Buick and Pontiac versions, but the ...

  7. Engineered wood - Wikipedia

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    Large self-supporting wooden roof built for Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. Engineered wood, also called mass timber, composite wood, man-made wood, or manufactured board, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding or fixing the strands, particles, fibres, or veneers or boards of wood, together with adhesives, or other methods of fixation [1] to form ...

  8. Thin walled beam - Wikipedia

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    Cross-section of a closed thin-walled beam. A thin walled beam is a type of beam that does not have a solid cross sectional area. The cross section of a thin walled beam is made up from thin panels connected together.

  9. Vanwall - Wikipedia

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    The 2.0 L engine was designed by Norton engineer Leo Kuzmicki, and was essentially four Manx [3] single-cylinder 498 cc (30.4 cu in) (86.1 mm × 85.6 mm (3.39 in × 3.37 in)) engines with a common waterjacket, cylinder head (a copy of the Norton's) and valvetrain, [3] with induction by four AMAL motorcycle carburetors. [3]