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TIMBER AND TIMBER TREES.
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Table CLXX.
Showing the woods which have been experimented upon, arranged in numerical order of transverse strength; calculated from the formula ; the weight per cubic foot; the comparative transverse strength, English Oak being 1.000 the elasticity per formula ; and the comparative elasticity, English Oak being =1.000 Abstracted from the tables accompanying the description of the various kinds.
Name of the Wood. | Numerical order of transverse strength. |
Weight per cubic foot. |
Strength per formula. |
Comparative transverse strength, English Oak being = 1.000 |
Deflection at the crisis of breaking in inches. |
Elasticity per forumla, |
Comparative elasticity English Oak being=1.000 |
Kranji | 01 | 64.31 | 3892 | 1.838 | 4.040 | 1,504910 | 3.484 |
Iorn-Bark | 02 | 71.82 | 3498 | 1.644 | 4.940 | 466570 | 1.051 |
Greenheart | 03 | 71.82 | 3498 | 1.652 | 4.625 | 436880 | .982 |
Mora | 04 | 67.94 | 3481 | 1.644 | 4.940 | 466570 | 1.051 |
Sabicu | 05 | 57.31 | 3393 | 1.602 | 3.766 | 972350 | 2.186 |
Pyengadu | 06 | 73.50 | 3342 | 1.578 | 4.250 | 1,031940 | 2.320 |
Pingow | 07 | 46.25 | 3316 | 1.566 | 3.186 | 1,259690 | 2.832 |
Moalvé | 08 | 63.31 | 3264 | 1.541 | 5.166 | 1,463000 | 3.290 |
Kapor | 09 | 59.75 | 3108 | 1.468 | 3.766 | 1,463000 | 3.2390 |
African | 10 | 62.06 | 2909 | 1.374 | 5.142 | 410430 | 3.290 |
Tewart | 11 | 73.06 | 2701 | 1.276 | 4.750 | 776990 | 1.747 |
Chow | 12 | 69.75 | 2559 | 1.208 | 2.833 | 1,013836 | 2.280 |
Elm, Canada | 13 | 46.75 | 2415 | 1.141 | 8.790 | 618550 | 1.391 |
Pine, Pitch | 14 | 39.37 | 2348 | 1.109 | ... | 755240 | 1.700 |
Teak, Moulmein | 15 | 49.47 | 2303 | 1.088 | 5.930 | 530970 | 1.193 |
Fir, Dantzic | 16 | 36.37 | 2301 | 1.087 | 5.142 | 579190 | 1.302 |
Kari, Australia | 17 | 61.31 | 2264 | 1.069 | 6.060 | 930950 | 2.093 |
Ash, English | 18 | 46.00 | 2263 | 1.069 | 8.625 | 573100 | 1.289 |