Monday Morning, September 28

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

Development and Application of Wood Adhesives in China

Jiyou Gu, Professor and Dean, College of Materials Science & Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, P.R. China; Zhiyong Cai, Project Leader, Engineered Composite Science, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

State of the North American Wood Composites and Wood Adhesives Markets

Herbert J. Kennedy, Regional Sales Manager, Wood Adhesives. Georgia-Pacific Chemicals, LLC, Decatur, Georgia, USA

North American Resin Suppliers’ Green Perspectives

Tom C. Ruffing, Graduate Research Assistant, Paul M. Smith, Professor of Forest Products Marketing, and Nicole R. Brown, Associate Professor of Wood Chemistry, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

The CARB Rule: Driving Technology to Improve Public Health

Jeffery R. Williams, Air Pollution Specialist, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, California, USA

Monday Afternoon, September 28

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SESSION 1A: Environmental

Impact of Green Building on Wood Adhesives

Ashlee T. Cribb, Market Manager, Wood Adhesives, Georgia-Pacific Chemicals, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

CARB Formaldehyde Emission Standards: An International Perspective

Tom C. Ruffing and Wenping Shi, Graduate Research Assistants, Nicole R. Brown, Associate Professor of Wood Chemistry, and Paul M. Smith, Professor of Forest Products Marketing, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Measurement of Significant Native Formaldehyde Generated During Wood Composite Panel Production

Michael J. Birkeland, R&D Project Manager, HRT-Ashland, Edgerton, Wisconsin, USA; Charles R. Frihart, Head of Wood Adhesives Science & Technology, Performance Enhanced Biopolymers, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; James M. Wescott, CTO and Technical Director-Wood Adhesives, HRT-Ashland, Waunakee, Wisconsin, USA; Linda Lorenz, Chemist, Performance Enhanced Biopolymers, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Reduction of Formaldehyde Emission from Particleboard Panels: Evidence for a Threshold Effect due to Remaining UF Resin

Mark Irle, Director of Research, Christophe Belloncle, Senior Researcher, and Baha Guezguez, Ph.D. Student, Ecole Supérieure du Bois, Nantes, France

Do Non-Formaldehyde Emitting Products Have to be Produced with Non-Formaldehyde Adhesives?

Astrid Pedersen, Product Development Manager, IWS, Dynea AS, Lillestrøm, Norway

Production of Low Formaldehyde Emission UF Resins

João Ferra, Ph.D. Student, Laboratory of Process, Environment & Energy Engineering, FEUP-LEPAE, Porto, Portugal; Jorge Martins, Professor, Laboratory of Process, Environment & Energy Engineering, FEUP-LEPAE, Porto, Portugal and Dept. of Wood Engineering, Polytechnic Inst. of Viseu, Viseu, Portugal; Adélio M. Mendes, Professor, Laboratory of Process, Environment & Energy Engineering, FEUP-LEPAE, Porto, Portugal; Mário R. Costa, Professor, Laboratory of Separation & Reaction Engineering, LSRE, Porto, Portugal; Luisa H. Carvalho, Professor, Laboratory of Process, Environment & Energy Engineering, FEUP-LEPAE, Porto, Portugal and Dept. of Wood Engineering, Polytechnic Inst. of Viseu, Viseu, Portugal; Fernão D. Magalhães, Professor, Laboratory of Process, Environment & Energy Engineering, FEUP-LEPAE, Porto, Portugal

AsWood™ – Technologies for Composite Boards with Formaldehyde Emissions as Defined by Nature

Kristina Ðurkic, Research Manager, and José Gomez-Bueso, Chief Scientist, Dynea AS, Lillestrøm, Norway; Elke Fliedner, Senior Chemist, Dynea Erkner GmbH, Erkner, Germany

SESSION 1B: Applications 1

Ultra Fast Structural 2K Adhesives: Continuous Manufacturing and Economical Production with Lot Size One

Willi Schwotzer, CTO, Hans Peter Luthiger, Project Leader, Patrick Steiner, Technology Manager, and Sebastian Meyer, Application Engineer, Nolax AG, Sempach Station, Switzerland

Ultrasonic Atomization of Resins for Bio-Based Composites Industry: Opportunities, Challenges, and Limitations

Lech Muszynski, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Wood Science & Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA; Douglas J. Gardner, Professor and Program Leader of Wood Science, School of Forest Resources and AEWC Advanced Structures & Composites Center, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Xuelian Zhang, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, School of Forest Resources, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Thermal Behavior of Polyurethane Adhesives Bonded to Wood

Klaus Richter, Head, and Francisco Lopéz-Suevos, Research Scientist, Wood Laboratory, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Testing & Research, Dübendorf/Zürich, Switzerland

Temperature Dependent Strength of Adhesively Bonded Timber Joints

Thomas Tannert, Scientific Collaborator, R&D, Till Vallée, Professor, Structural Engineering, and Simon Hehl, Student, Timber Engineering, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Biel, Switzerland

Tuesday Morning, September 29

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SESSION 2A: Resin Chemistry 1

An Overview on Flame-Retardant Structural Wood Adhesives

Jinlan Ju, Research Scientist, and Xiang-Ming Wang, Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; Martin W. Feng, Senior Research Scientist and Project Leader, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Development of Fire-Resistant Polyurethane Structural Wood Adhesives

Jinlan Ju, Research Scientist, and Xiang-Ming Wang, Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; Martin W. Feng, Senior Research Scientist and Project Leader, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Zhenhua Gao, Professor, College of Material & Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, P.R. China

Effect of Nano-Clay on the Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Resin Film

Yucheng Peng, Graduate Research Assistant, and Sheldon Q. Shi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forest Products, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA. Presented by Kaiwen Liang, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Forest Products, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA

Optimization of the Glass Transition Temperature and Cure Regime for Structural Timber Adhesives used for On Site Bonding

Adlin Sabrina Muhammad Roseley, M.phil./Ph.D. Candidate, and Martin P. Ansell, Reader and Head, Sports & Materials Group, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom; Dave Smedley, Technical Director, Rotafix Ltd., Swansea, United Kingdom

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Effect of Curing Procedure on pH and Alkalinity or Acidity of Wood Adhesives

Xiang-Ming Wang, Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; Romulo Casilla, Research Consultant, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Yaolin Zhang, Research Scientist, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Effects of Esters and Resorcinol on Phenolic Resins as Adhesives in MDF Manufacturing

Martin W. Feng, Senior Research Scientist and Project Leader, Guangbo He, Scientist, and Axel Andersen, Senior Technologist, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Radiation and Dual Radiation-Thermal Cure Adhesives for Wood Composites

David P. Harper, Assistant Professor, Forest Products Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tennessee, USA

SESSION 2B: Composites

The Evolution of Composite Panel Resin Technology

Bruce M. Broline, Principal, Broline Consulting, LLC, Pleasant Hill, Oregon, USA; Tom Holloway, Technology Manager, Arclin, Springfield, Oregon, USA; Robert G. Schmidt, Senior Vice President, Research & Technology, Arclin, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Soy Containing High Quality CARB II Compliant PB and MDF

James A. Yavorsky, Senior Research Scientist, Ashland, Wilmington, Delaware, USA; Michael J. Birkeland, R&D Project Manager, HRT- Ashland, Edgerton, Wisconsin, USA; Richard L. Brady, Research Scientist, Ashland, Wilmington, Delaware, USA; James M. Wescott, CTO and Technical Director-Wood Adhesives, HRT-Ashland, Waunakee, Wisconsin, USA

Producing Panels with Formaldehyde Emission at Wood Levels

Eleftheria Athanassiadou, Head, R&D Support Dept., and Intellectual Property Protection Manager, Sophia Tsiantzi, R&D Manager, and Charles Markessinis, Research Engineer, Chimar Hellas S.A., Thessaloniki, Greece

Resins from Soybean Oil-Based Additives for Natural Fiber Sheet Molding Compound (SMC) Composites: Synthesis and Characterization

Kaiwen Liang, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, and Sheldon Q. Shi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forest Products, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA

Utilization of Plantation Wood in High Performance Wood-Based Structural Composites

Andreja Kutnar, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, and Fred A. Kamke, JELD-WEN Professor of Wood-Based Composite Science, Dept. of Wood Science & Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA; Milan Sernek, Associate Professor, Dept. of Wood Science & Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Utilization of Chitosan as an Adhesive for Bagasse Particleboard

Kenji Umemura, Assistant Professor, Keiji Kaiho, Graduate Student, and Shuichi Kawai, Professor, Research Inst. for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Application of Fundamental Fiber-Adhesive Interactions in the Manufacture of MDF

Warren J. Grigsby and Armin Thumm, Scientists, Scion, Rotorua, New Zealand

Tuesday Afternoon, September 29

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SESSION 3A: Resin Chemistry 2

Development of Liquefied Bark Phenolic Resin for Composite Wood Product Applications

Martin W. Feng, Senior Research Scientist and Project Leader, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Gilles Brunette, Manager, and Xiang-Ming Wang, Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader, and Yaolin Zhang, Research Scientist, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; Shixue Ren, Associate Professor, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, P.R. China; Hui Wan, Research Scientist, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Improved CARB II Compliant Soy Adhesives for Laminates

James M. Wescott, CTO and Technical Director-Wood Adhesives, HRT-Ashland, Waunakee, Wisconsin, USA; Anthony (Tony) J. Allen, Senior Research Scientist, Ashland-Hercules Water Technologies, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Bryan Spraul, Scientist, Ashland, Wilmington, Delaware, USA

Investigation on the Structure-Property Relationships of One Component Polyurethane Prepolymers and Formulated Adhesives

Sebastian Clauss, Scientific Assistant and Ph.D. Student, ETH Zürich, Inst. for Building Materials, Zürich, Switzerland; Joseph Gabriel, Technical Director, Purbond AG, Sempach Station, Switzerland; Alexander Karbach, Head of Solid State & Polymer Analysis, CURRENTA GmbH & Co. OHG, Krefeld, Germany; Mathias Matner, Head of R&D Prepolymers, Bayer MaterialScience AG, Leverkusen, Germany; Peter Niemz, Professor and Head of Wood Physics Group, ETH Zürich, Inst. for Building Materials, Zürich, Switzerland

Morphological Properties of Moisture-Cure Polyurethane Wood Adhesives

Dakai Ren, Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. Student, Macromolecules & Interfaces Inst., and Charles E. Frazier, Thomas M. Brooks Professor, Dept. of Wood Science & Forest Products, and Director, Wood-Based Composites Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Performance of 1K Polyurethane in Comparison to Other Wood Adhesives

Ulrich Mueller, Area Manager, Wood Materials Technology, Wood Kplus – Competence Centre for Wood Composites & Wood Chemistry, Linz, Austria and Dept. of Material Sciences & Process Engineering, BOKU – University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; Stefan Veigel, Ph.D. Student, and Jürgen Follrich, Research Fellow, Wood Kplus – Competence Centre for Wood Composites and Wood Chemistry, Linz, Austria; Joseph Gabriel, Technical Director, Purbond AG, Sempach Station, Switzerland; Wolfgang Gindl, Associate Professor, Dept. of Material Sciences & Process Engineering, BOKU – University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

A Standard Protocol for Testing Adhesive Bond Strength Development Dynamics with the ABES Technique

Philip E. Humphrey, Chief Science Officer, Adhesive Evaluation Systems, Inc., Corvallis, Oregon, USA

High Temperature Performance of Structural Soy Adhesives

Christopher G. Hunt, Research Chemist, Charles R. Frihart, Head of Wood Adhesives Science & Technology, Jane O’Dell, Physical Science Technician, and Linda Lorenz, Chemist, Performance Enhanced Biopolymers, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Nanomechanical Characterization of Wood Adhesives and Wood Cell Structure

Jeffrey P. Schirer, Senior Applications Engineer, Hysitron, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

SESSION 3B: Modeling

Modeling the Bond Strength Development in Particleboard and MDF

Christian Lanvermann, Research Assistant, and Heiko Thoemen, Scientist and Lecturer, Dept. of Wood Science, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Mechanistic Modeling of Bonding Characteristics and Properties of Wood Composites

Chunping Dai, Senior Scientist and Group Leader, Guangbo He, Scientist, Changming Yu, Visiting Professor, and Jiankang Chen, Visiting Professor, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Wood-Adhesive Bonding Failure: Modeling and Simulation

Zhiyong Cai, Project Leader, Engineered Composite Science, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Predicting the Strength of Adhesively Bonded Timber Joints Using a Probabilistic Method

Till Vallée, Professor, Structural Engineering, Thomas Tannert, Scientific Collaborator, R&D, and Martin Lehmann, Assistant, Materials & Wood Technology, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Biel, Switzerland

Numerical Modeling and Experiments on the Role of Strand-to-Strand Interface Quality on the Properties of Oriented Strandboard

John A. Nairn, Professor and Richardson Chair, and Edward Le, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Wood Science & Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) of the Rotary Drum Blending Process: Input Parameters and Verification

Gregory D. Smith, Associate Professor, Dept. of Wood Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Graeme Dick, Technical Coordinator, Weyerhaeuser, Edson Structurwood, Edson, Alberta, Canada

Mechanical and Dielectric Response of Thermosetting Wood Adhesives During Cure

Milan Sernek, Associate Professor, and Mirko Kariz, Graduate Assistant, Dept. of Wood Science & Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Rheological Characterization of Wood Adhesives and Droplet Size Prediction

Xuelian Zhang, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, School of Forest Resources, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; Douglas J. Gardner, Professor and Program Leader of Wood Science, School of Forest Resources and AEWC Advanced Structures & Composites Center, and Douglas W. Bousfield, Professor, Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA

Wednesday Morning, September 30

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SESSION 4A: Bio-Based

Development of Liquefied Lignin Phenolic Resin for Composite Wood Product Applications

Yaolin Zhang, Research Scientist, and Xiang-Ming Wang, Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; Martin W. Feng, Senior Research Scientist and Project Leader, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Shixue Ren, Associate Professor, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, P.R. China; Stephane Nadon, former Technologist, and Dian-Qing Yang, Research Scientist, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Soy Adhesive – Moisture Interactions

Christopher G. Hunt, Research Chemist, and Charles R. Frihart, Head of Wood Adhesives Science & Technology, Performance Enhanced Biopolymers, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; James M. Wescott, CTO and Technical Director-Wood Adhesives, HRT-Ashland, Waunakee, Wisconsin, USA; Linda Lorenz, Chemist, Performance Enhanced Biopolymers, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Soy Latex Like Adhesive for Wood Veneer Applications

Guangyan Qi, Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. Student, and Xiuzhi (Susan) Sun, Professor, Dept. of Grain Science & Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

Comparing Soy Protein Isolate and Wheat Gluten as Bio-Based Binders for the Wood Industry

Petra Nordqvist, Ph.D. Student, and Eva Malmström, Professor, Dept. of Fibre & Polymer Technology, Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; Farideh Khabbaz, Senior Research Chemist, Casco Adhesives AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Protein Hybrid Adhesives: Adhesive Performance, Formulation Latitude, and Chemical Structure

Joseph J. Marcinko and Anthony A. Parker, Principal Scientists, Advanced Biopolymer Technologies, Mantua, New Jersey, USA

Improve the Water Resistance of Soy-Based Adhesive by Using Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate and Glutaraldehyde

Fei Li, Research Assistant, and Xiaoping Li and Weihong Wang, Professors, College of Materials Science & Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, P.R. China

SESSION 4B: Engineered Wood

Evaluation of Adhesive Bonds in Glulam Posts with Thermally Modified Spruce

Marielle Henriksson, Researcher, and Magdalena Sterley, Researcher, SP Technical Research Inst. of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden and Ph.D. Student, Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden; Jonas Danvind, Researcher, SP Technical Research Inst. of Sweden, Skellefteå, Sweden; Mats Westin, Researcher, SP Technical Research Inst. of Sweden, Borås, Sweden

Innovative Programs Led in France to Promote the Use of Domestic Woods in the Field of Engineered Wood Products

Frédéric Simon, Innovation Manager, Research & Innovation Direction, Timber Engineering Unit, FCBA Technological Inst., Bordeaux, France; Ronny Bredesen, Research Scientist, Wood & Specialty Adhesives, Dynea AS, Lillestrøm, Norway

Ductile Adhesively Bonded Timber Joints

Maurice Brunner, Professor, Structural Analysis, Till Vallée, Professor, Structural Engineering, and Thomas Tannert, Scientific Collaborator, R&D, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Biel, Switzerland

Low Intrusion Techniques for Strengthening of Timber Structures in Reconstruction

Kay-Uwe Schober, Professor of Timber Engineering & Structural Design, Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany; Karl Rautenstrauch, Professor and Head, and Markus Jahreis, Research Associate, Dept. of Timber & Masonry Engineering, Bauhaus-University of Weimar, Weimar, Germany

Flat Wise Green Gluing of Norway Spruce for Structural Application

Magdalena Sterley, Researcher, SP Technical Research Inst. of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden and Ph.D. Student, Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden; Erik Serrano, Professor, and Bertill Enqvist, Research Engineer, Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden

Wednesday Afternoon, September 30

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SESSION 5A: Analytical

Small Specimen Wood-Rheology: A Tool to Understand HMR Coupling Mechanism

Sudip Chowdhury, Graduate Research Assistant, and Charles E. Frazier, Thomas M. Brooks Professor, Dept. of Wood Science & Forest Products, and Director, Wood-Based Composites Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Characterizing pMDI Reactions with Wood Cell Walls. Part I: High-Resolution Solution-State NMR Spectroscopy

Daniel J. Yelle, Physical Science Technician and Ph.D. Candidate, and Joseph E. Jakes, Student Training Engineer and Ph.D. Candidate, Materials Science Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison and USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; John Ralph, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Charles R. Frihart, Head of Wood Adhesives Science & Technology, Performance Enhanced Biopolymers, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Investigation of PF Adhesive Penetration in Wood by Micro X-ray Tomography

Fred A. Kamke, JELD-WEN Professor of Wood-Based Composite Science, and Guenter Modzel, Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Wood Science & Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

3D Characterization of Adhesives Penetration into Wood by Means of Synchrotron Radiation

Philipp Hass, Scientific Assistant and Ph.D. Student, ETH Zürich, Inst. for Building Materials, Zürich, Switzerland; Marco Stampanoni, Professor, Inst. for Biomedical Engineering, Paul Scherrer Inst., Villigen, Switzerland and ETH Zürich, Inst. for Building Materials, Zürich, Switzerland; Anders Kaestner, Research Assistant, Neutron Imaging & Activation Group, Paul Scherrer Inst., Villigen, Switzerland; David Mannes, Scientific Assistant and Ph.D. Student, and Peter Niemz, Professor and Head of Wood Physics Group, ETH Zürich, Inst. for Building Materials, Zürich, Switzerland

Diffusion Processes at Glue Joints of Wood-Based Materials Evaluated by Means of Neutron Imaging

Walter Sonderegger, Scientific Assistant and Ph.D. Student, and Peter Niemz, Professor and Head of Wood Physics Group, ETH Zürich, Inst. for Building Materials, Zürich, Switzerland; Eberhard Lehmann, Group Leader of Neutron Imaging & Activation (NIAG), Paul Scherrer Inst., Villigen, Switzerland; David Mannes and Stefan Hering, Scientific Assistants and Ph.D. Students, ETH Zürich, Inst. for Building Materials, Zürich, Switzerland

Sophisticated Analyses of Low Emission Resins

Wolfgang Kantner, Laboratory & Product Development Manager, and Johann Moser and Christian Heinemann, Senior Product Development Chemists, Dynea Austria GmbH, Krems, Austria

Characterization of pMDI Reacted Wood Part II: Nanoindentation

Joseph E. Jakes, Student Training Engineer and Ph.D. Candidate, and Daniel J. Yelle, Physical Science Technician and Ph.D. Candidate, Materials Science Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison and USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; James F. Beecher, Supervisory Chemist, Analytical Chemistry & Microscopy Laboratory, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Donald S. Stone, Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Charles R. Frihart, Head of Wood Adhesives Science & Technology, Performance Enhanced Biopolymers, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

SESSION 5B: Applications 2

Dependence of Strength Values of Glued Wood Bonds on Specimen Geometry

Goran Mihulja, Assistant, Hrvoje Turkulin, Professor, and Andrija Bogner, Associate Professor, Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Glued Laminated Timber – Shear Test of Glue Lines

René Steiger, Group Leader, Timber Engineering, and Klaus Richter, Head, Wood Laboratory, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Testing & Research, Dübendorf/Zürich, Switzerland

Hydrolitic Stability and Microstructure of Cured Urea-Formaldehyde Resins

Byung-Dae Park, Assistant Professor, and Ho-Won Jeong, Graduate Student, Dept. of Wood Science & Technology, Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu, Republic of Korea

Study on the Bonding Property of Melamine and Urea-Formaldehyde Resin by Co-polymerization Modification

Libin Zhu, Associate Professor, and Jiyou Gu, Professor and Dean, College of Materials Science & Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, P.R. China

Adhesive Application of Liquefied Green and Mountain-Pine Beetle Infested Lodgepole Pine Barks

Yong Zhao, Ph.D. Student, and Ning Yan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Martin W. Feng, Senior Research Scientist and Project Leader, FPInnovations – Forintek Division, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Development of Floor Tiles from Philippine Bamboos

Marina A. Alipon, Scientist I, Edna B. Bauza, Senior Science Research Specialist, and Gilberto N. Sapin, Science Research Specialist I, Dept. of Science & Technology (DOST), Forest Products R&D Inst. (FPRDI), College, Laguna, Philippines