Wood, as the basic construction material in furniture, has found widespread use in designed elements: decorative, turned, curved, beam and board. However, surface elements, such as worktops of tables, shelves, partitions and side walls of bodies, require the use of higher quality materials and dimensional stability. For these reasons, in the furniture industry, it is common to use wood-based materials that provide freedom in forming surface shapes, greater stability of thickness than wood and higher material efficiency. The most frequently used wood-based materials in the furniture industry include:
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Table 4.3 Resilient properties of wood (Hearmon 1948, Bodig and Goodman 1973)
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Linear elasticity module (GPa)
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Shear elasticity module (GPa)
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Poisson’s ratio
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• boards bonded from strips and panels,
• carpentry and honeycomb boards,
• chipboards,
• fibreboards and
• plywood.
