Nondestructive Structural Evaluation of Wood Floor Systems in Historic Buildings
Soltis, L.A., Ross, R.J., Wang, X. USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, One Gifford Pinchot Drive, Madison, WI 53705 Hunt, M.O. Wood Research Laboratory, Purdue University, 1200 Forest Products Building, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1200 Cai, Z. Temple-Inland Forest Products Corp., 700 N Temple Drive, Diboll, TX 75941
ABSTRACT
For a variety of reasons, comprehensive structural assessment of buildings is desired, but lacking. Currently, visual inspection and possibly some nondestructive testing (NDT) of individual structural members are the basis of assessment of a building's floor, for example. This research reports on a multiphase NDT project that focuses on evaluating component floor systems rather than individual members.
Publication Source: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Nondestructive Testing of Wood University of Western Hungary, Sopron, 13-15 September 2000, ISBN 963 7180 88 5 Publisher: University of Western Hungary, H 9400 Sopron, P.O.Box 132, FAX: +36 99 311 103
