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Matching of wood for testing purpose

Herstellung von Vergleichsproben für Versuchszwecke

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Different methods of pair matching both small “clean” wood specimens and structural timber are described. Matching of structural timber according to modulus of elasticity and knots results in pairs that differ in strength by an average of about 15 percent with extremes up to 40 percent. These differences are due to other parameters such as fibre deviation, number of cut fibres, tension strength perpendicular to grain, whose influence is not sufficiently reflected in the deviation of local stiffness.

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Verschiedene Methoden zur Erzeugung von Probenpaaren mit möglichst gleichen Eigenschaften, und zwar sowohl kleine, fehlerfreie Proben als auch große Proben mit Bauholzabmessungen, werden beschrieben. Bei großen Proben, die über den Elastizitätsmodul und die Ästigkeit ausgewählt wurden, unterscheiden sich Vergleichsproben in der Festigkeit um durchschnittlich 15%, im Einzelfall um bis zu 40%. Diese Unterschiede sind bedingt durch andere Parameter wie z.B. Faserneigung, Anzahl angeschnittener Fasern, Querzugfestigkeit, die sich auf die Variation der örtlichen Steifigkeit nicht hinreichend stark auswirken.

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Norén, B. Matching of wood for testing purpose. Holz als Roh-und Werkstoff 52, 191–197 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02615221

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