{"id":9074,"date":"2012-11-22T16:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T22:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/?page_id=9074"},"modified":"2021-10-27T17:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T22:16:15","slug":"crushing-strength","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/crushing-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Crushing Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes known as <em>compression strength parallel to the grain<\/em>, this is a measurement of the wood&#8217;s maximum crushing strength when weight is applied to the ends of the wood (compression is parallel to the grain).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11107\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/compression.png\" alt=\"Compression strength testing\" width=\"544\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/compression.png 544w, https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/compression-200x14.png 200w, https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/compression-60x4.png 60w, https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/compression-400x29.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Compression strength testing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This number is a good indicator of the wood\u2019s strength in applications such as deck posts, chair legs, or other circumstances where the load being applied is parallel rather than perpendicular to the grain.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"crushing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/crushing-400x271.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In practical terms, the number itself isn\u2019t all that meaningful, but it becomes useful to use in comparison with other woods. For instance,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/ipe\/\">Ipe<\/a> is known to have excellent strength properties among imported species, and has a crushing strength of 13,510 lb<sub>f<\/sub>\/in<sup>2<\/sup> (93.1 MPa). In comparison,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/red-oak\/\">White Oak<\/a> is a well-known wood used in cabinetry and furniture, and has a crushing strength of 7,440 lb<sub>f<\/sub>\/in<sup>2 <\/sup>(51.3 MPa), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/redwood\/\">Redwood<\/a> is commonly used for decking, and has a crushing strength of 5,690 lb<sub>f<\/sub>\/in<sup>2 <\/sup>(39.2 MPa).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Get the hard copy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/book\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20824 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood-book-standup-225x299.jpg\" alt=\"wood-book-standup\" width=\"225\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood-book-standup-225x299.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood-book-standup.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re interested in getting all that makes <em>The Wood Database<\/em> unique distilled into a single, real-world resource, there&#8217;s the book that&#8217;s based on the website\u2014the Amazon.com best-seller, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/book\/\">WOOD! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide<\/a><\/strong>. It contains many of the most popular articles found on this website, as well as hundreds of wood profiles\u2014laid out with the same clarity and convenience of the website\u2014packaged in a shop-friendly hardcover book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes known as compression strength parallel to the grain, this is a measurement of the wood&#8217;s maximum crushing strength when weight is applied to the ends of the wood (compression is parallel to the grain). This number is a good indicator of the wood\u2019s strength in applications such as deck posts, chair legs, or other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9074","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31557,"href":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9074\/revisions\/31557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wood-database.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}