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With wood expanding and contracting with changing moisture content, how is a fiber-reinforced plastic compatible with wood?

April 26, 2017changing compatible content contracting expanding fiber-reinforced moisture plastic wood

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With wood expanding and contracting with changing moisture content, how is a fiber-reinforced plastic compatible with wood?

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FiRP Reinforcement has a low stiffness perpendicular to the span. This allows the uni-directional FiRP Reinforcement to expand and contract, with the wood.