Lab Report: Testing of Wood: 1.0 Summary
Lab Report: Testing of Wood: 1.0 Summary
Lab Report: Testing of Wood: 1.0 Summary
The goal of this lab is to help provide better understanding of the properties of
wood. Four samples will be tested; two for compressive strength with the load parallel to
the grains and two with the load perpendicular to the grains. This will enable the
calculations of the modulus of elasticity and the maximum strength under compression
for both loading parallel and perpendicular to the grain. The influence of grain direction
and wood type, as well as failure mechanism can be identified.
1.0 Summary
• Briefly introduce the type of wood (i.e. Oak is a kind of hard wood, pine is a kind of soft
wood), the type of tests and the number of specimens
fc (MPa)
Ec (GPa)
Oak
fc⊥ (MPa)
Ec⊥ (MPa)
fc (MPa)
Ec (GPa)
Pine
fc⊥ (MPa)
Ec⊥ (MPa)
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2.0 Test Set-up
Compression
Parallel to Oak 1
Grain
Oak
Compression
Perpendicular Oak 2
to Grain
Compression
Parallel to Pine 1
Grain
Pine
Compression
Perpendicular Pine 2
to Grain
• Describe what constitutes failure for wood under compressive testing. What is the nature
of the failure.
• Mention briefly what differences can be seen between the properties of the hard and soft
woods.
Table 3: Failure Loads
Compression
Parallel to Oak 1
Grains
Oak
Compression
Perpendicular Oak 2
to Grains
Compression
Parallel to Pine1
Grains
Pine
Compression
Perpendicular Pine 2
to Grains
Compression
Parallel to Oak 1
Grains
Oak
Compression
Perpendicular Oak 2
to Grains
Compression
Parallel to Pine 1
Grains
Pine
Compression
Perpendicular Pine 2
to Grains
Strength is the defined as:
P
f = (Equation 1)
A
where P is the peak load and A is the cross sectional area of the block.
∆L
εc = (Equation 2)
L
where ∆L is the change in length of the specimen and L is the length. (Table 2)
∆d
ε c⊥ = (Equation 3)
d
where ∆d is the change in diameter (width) of the specimen (Table 2) and d is the diameter
(width) Table 2.
• Stress – Strain curves should be plotted in Figures 2-5, for each of the four specimens.
• Make sure you normalize your data as you did in the concrete lab.
• Include a Figure that shows the different ways wood can fail