Anisotropy of acoustic propagation velocities is a ubiquitous feature of wood. This needs to be considered for successful application of travel time tomography, an increasingly popular technique for non-destructive testing of living trees...
Keywords: Acoustic, anisotropy, decay, inversion procedure, tomography, trees, ultrasound
08/2006 | Holzforschung, Walter de GruyterThe occurrence of fungal species on pine sapwood samples obtained from an above-ground field test study was analysed by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP), cloning, and sequencing...
Keywords: decay, double layer, Fungi, sequencing, service life prediction, soft rot, T-RFLP
01/2007 | Holzforschung, Walter de Gruyter