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Norway Maple

3/6/14       
Daniel Member

Does anyone have the mechanical properties on Norway Maple? I am looking for shear strength, bend modulus, tensile strength, compressive strength and so on . Every chart I look at lists sugar maple, red maple, black maple, silver maple, bigleaf maple, but never Norway maple. Norway Maple is becoming more and more common in the northeast USA because it is invasive and fast growing and is now beginning to crowd out the sugar maples, yet no-one I ask knows a thing about it. Someone please enlighten me.

3/6/14       #2: Norway Maple ...
Quinn McCarthy Member

Dan,

Check the USFS forest products labratory website. There are located in Madison, wi. They have those properties for just about any species youu can imagine.

Hope that helps.

Quinn

3/6/14       #3: Norway Maple ...
Daniel Member

I just spoke with someone from the USFS and unfortunately they have no information about this species.

3/7/14       #4: Norway Maple ...
Quinn McCarthy Member

That is too bad.

Quinn

3/7/14       #5: Norway Maple ...
Johnny

Are Norway and Red maple not the same ?Have been led(mis?) to believe so in the past .

3/9/14       #6: Norway Maple ...
Daniel Member

Red Maple is Acer-rubrum and Norway Maple is Acer_platanoides

3/11/14       #7: Norway Maple ...
Quinn McCarthy Member

Dan,

Seeing as the norway maple is in the hard maple family. I would use the wood properties from the hard maple family.

Like sugar or black maple. Properties are going to be pretty close.

Quinn
Forester by day. Woodworker by night.

10/19/14       #8: Norway Maple ...
Henning Linaker Member

Being a norwegian woodworker this thread caught my attention . Here is the mechanical principles for different wood species used up in here. Maple "lønn" is listed, guess its norwegian. You also have different tables with other types of properties on the left hand side. The info is from a organisation or guild for broadleaf sawmills. Hope google translate can help or that you can figure it out.

http://www.lauvtrebruk.no/pages/26

10/20/14       #9: Norway Maple ...
The Staff at WOODWEB

Here is the Google Translation:

Mechanical Properties

Average values ​​of mechanical properties in at Norwegian deciduous tree species.

Values ​​are based on surveys of F. Kollmann, Chr. Scheiber and Wagenführ R., B. Kucera, L. Nagode and M. Foslie.
The values ​​are valid for small clear specimens and must not be used in structural designs.
More on this topic in the book: Wood - nature's most beautiful raw materials, published on Landbruksforlaget 1999, ISBN 82-529-2167-1

In all four tables tells about different mechanical properties.

Table A.

BENDING STRENGTH, E-MODULE BENDING. Tensile and compressive strength

Wood Bending modulus Tensile strength Compressive strength
bending strength Fiberretn. Tang. Fiberretn. Tang.
GPa MPa MPa MPa MPa MPa
SB12 EB12 sSf12 sSt12 stf12 stt12
Elm (Ulmus glabra) 89 11.0 80 4.0

56

10.0
Ash (Fraxinus exelsior) 120 13.4 165 7.0

52

11.0
Birch (Betula pendula) 105 14.9 173 5.1

50

10.5
Beech (Fagus sylvatica) 123 13.7 135 7.0

55

10.1
Oak (Quercus robur) 88 11.7 90 4.0

61

11.0
Cherry (Prunus avium) 95

50

Lind (Tilia cordata) 106 7.4 85 5.8

52

4.5
Maple (Acer platanoides) 117 11.3 100

53

10.0
Alder (Alnus glutinosa) 97 10.6 94

47

6.5
Aspen (Populus tremula) 79 10.4

42

4.7
Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) 108

61

Goat Willow (Salix caprea) 37

35

Spruce (Picea abies) 78 11.0 90 2.0

43

5.1
Pine (Pinus sylvestris) 87 12.0 104 3.0

55

7.7

Bending strength shows the load a beam can withstand before it breaks. Static bending strength is one of the most important properties of wood.
Modulus of bending expresses try play's resistance to being deformed.
Tensile strength parallel to the fibers expressing sample workpiece resistance to destruction by pressure or shear zones and is an important indicator of the strength of the wood.
Compressive strength expresses try play's resistance to compression ..

Table B.

Shear strength, torsjonsfasthet, modulus-strength and impact bending

Wood Shear strength torsional modulus Impact Fracture
Radial Tang. torsion strength work
MPa MPa MPa MPa kJ / m2
tSr12 tSt12 TD12 ED12 A12

Elm (Ulmus glabra)

7.0

60

Ash (Fraxinus exelsior)

12.8
22.0

1190

68
Birch (Betula pendula) 10.5 12.9

22.5

913

94
Beech (Fagus sylvatica) 8.0

19.0

83
Oak (Quercus robur) 11.0

20.0

960

75
Cherry (Prunus avium)

Lind (Tilia cordata) 4.5

15.0

50
Maple (Acer platanoides) 9.0

65
Alder (Alnus glutinosa) 4.5

13.4

55
Aspen (Populus tremula) 6.0

40
Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
Goat Willow (Salix caprea)
Spruce (Picea abies) 6.7

9.0

660

40
Pine (Pinus sylvestris) 10.0

16.0

40

Shear strength parallel to the fibers is the shear stress leading to displacement / fracture between two parallel layers in the sample.
Torsjonsfashet expresses try play's resistance to being deformed by torsion.
Impact fracture work expresses the timber's ability to withstand shock loads.

Table C.

Hardness and column strength

Janka wood hardness after the N Column strength in MPa
Radial Tang. The longitude Radial Tang.
retn.
HR12 Ht12

HL12

skr12

skt12
Elm (Ulmus glabra) 5100 (K) 5100 (K)

6400 (K)

0.6

0.7
Ash (Fraxinus exelsior) 6800 (W) 6800 (W)

7400 (W)

0.7

1.1
Birch (Betula pendula) 4400 (EIA) 4500 (KU)

5000 (W)

0.7

0.9
Beech (Fagus sylvatica) 6500 (W) 6500 (W)

7800 (K)

0.7

1.0
Oak (Quercus robur) 5600 (W) 5600 (W)

6600 (W)

0.6

0.8
Cherry (Prunus avium) 4100 (N)
Lind (Tilia cordata) 1500 (P) 1500 (P)

3300 (K)

0.4

0.6
Maple (Acer platanoides) 5200 (K) 5200 (K)

6700 (K)

1.0
Alder (Alnus glutinosa) 2500 (P) 2500 (P)

4400 (K)

0.7
Aspen (Populus tremula) 2600 (T) 2500 (T)

3600 (T)

0.5

0.7
Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
Goat Willow (Salix caprea)
Spruce (Picea abies) 2100 (T) 2300 (T)

2700 (K)

0.2

0.3
Pine (Pinus sylvestris) 2500 (K) 2500 (K)

3000 (K)

0.2

0.4

Hardness is the tree's ability to provide resistance to penetration by a hard body. This property is of great importance that require high wear resistance.
Column tension shows wood's resistance to cleavage / cleavage.

Table D.
Nail strength and screw strength

wood Species

Nail strength in N / mm
Turn strength in N / mm
Radial Tang. Radial Tang.
Fspr12 Fspt12 Fskr12 Fskt12
Elm (Ulmus glabra)
Ash (Fraxinus exelsior)
Birch (Betula pendula) 23 25159159
Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
Oak (Quercus robur)
Cherry (Prunus avium)
Lind (Tilia cordata)
Maple (Acer platanoides) 1.6
Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Aspen (Populus tremula)

12

91
Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
Goat Willow (Salix caprea)
Spruce (Picea abies)
Pine (Pinus sylvestris)

Nail tension shows wood's ability to provide resistance to extraction of the nail. Normally, nail strength substantially greater across the grain than in the fiber direction.
Screw tension shows wood's ability to provide resistance to extraction by screw. Turn resistance is usually somewhat larger in the radial direction than in tangentialretningen.


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