Publisher's Synopsis
The Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) has provided equilibrium moisture content (EMC) values of wood for given temperature and relative humidity (RH) conditions in various forms over the course of its history, primarily for practical purposes related to drying lumber and controlling moisture content. The FPL EMC data have been widely cited and reprinted, not only in literature of a practical nature such as the Wood Handbook, but also in textbooks and journal articles as a basis for scientific discourse on the thermodynamics of water vapor sorption in wood and evalu-ation of physical models. Using the data for such scientific purposes presupposes that the methods by which the data were acquired are well documented and accepted.
