A 250-mm wide red spruce plank is cut at the mill at a moisture content of 50% in such a way that the width is in the tangential direction of annual rings. What is the new width as the moisture content changes to 15%? The fiber saturation point of red spruce is 27%, and it shrinks 7.8% (of the green dimension) in drying from FSP to oven dry in the tangential direction.

A 250-mm wide red spruce plank is cut at the mill at a moisture content of 50% in such a way that the width is in the tangential direction of annual rings. What is the new width as the moisture content changes to 15%? The fiber saturation point of red spruce is 27%, and it shrinks 7.8% (of the green dimension) in drying from FSP to oven dry in the tangential direction.

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