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This chapter is a follow up on the previous one on the anatomical and physical properties of hardwoods in general. In this chapter, therefore, the reader is introduced to the mechanical properties of wood, i.e., those properties of wood that usually require mechanical stress for their determination (excluding non-destructive test methods). These include the strength of wood as affected by rate and duration of loading, mode and direction of applied stress, moisture content, density, and exposure to either low or high temperature, and/or chemicals. Some numerical examples are treated using Microsoft Excel. A simple FORTRAN code for solving the popular Hankinson formula is also presented.
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Olorunnisola, A.O. (2018). Mechanical Properties of Wood. In: Design of Structural Elements with Tropical Hardwoods. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65343-3_3
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