{"id":29366,"date":"2021-04-12T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/?page_id=29366"},"modified":"2022-11-16T12:15:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:15:29","slug":"worlds-strongest-woods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/worlds-strongest-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s Strongest Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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by Eric Meier<\/strong><\/p>

How do you define wood strength?<\/h2>

The simplest and most common way people define if a wood is “strong” is usually hardness. I’ve written about wood hardness<\/a> before\u2014as a matter of fact, I even have an entire poster<\/a> ranking the hardness of all sorts of woods worldwide. But this is a very one-dimensional way of approaching the question.<\/p>

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A pair of wooden dumbbells made of various dense hardwoods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Here are some questions to consider:<\/p>

  • What if we want to make a ramp where heavy machinery will be wheeled across the wood? We don’t want the planks to break.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>
  • How about a bookshelf, where a continuous load will be applied? We don’t want the wood to bow or sag.<\/span><\/li>
  • What if we are making chair legs which will need to support a lot of weight parallel to the grain? We don’t want the wood to be crushed and give out.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>

    All of the above scenarios have nothing to do with wood hardness. They are real-world examples that parallel totally separate wood tests (modulus of rupture, modulus of elasticity, and crushing strength, respectively).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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