American Black Cottonwood Wood

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American Black Cottonwood Wood
Categories:	Wood and Natural Products; Wood; Hardwood
Material Notes:	Hardwood. Relatively easy to work with hand tools. Fair steam bending, poor planing, poor shaping. Data is based on small, clear, air-dried samples unless specified. Property values marked by an asterisk (*) have been taken from an unusually old reference source.
Key Words:	Populus trichocarpa; Lumber, Timber
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Physical Properties	Metric	English	Comments

Density	0.350 g/cc	0.0126 lb/in³

Mechanical Properties	Metric	English	Comments
Hardness, Wood Indentation	1100 N	247 lb (f)	Side. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
	1200 N	270 lb (f)	End. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
Tensile Strength, Ultimate	1.86 MPa	270 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
Modulus of Rupture	0.0331 GPa	4.80 ksi	Static Bending*
	0.0570 GPa	8.27 ksi	In Bending
Flexural Yield Strength	20.0 MPa	2900 psi	Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Static Bending*
	36.5 MPa	5290 psi	Bending stress at proportional limit
Flexural Modulus	7.38 GPa	1070 ksi	Static Bending*
	9.00 - 9.45 GPa	1310 - 1370 ksi	In Bending
Compressive Strength	1.38 MPa	200 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
	3.30 MPa	479 psi	Perpendicular to Grain
	12.2 MPa	1770 psi	Parallel to Grain*
	14.9 MPa	2160 psi	Max Crushing Strength Parallel to Grain*
	30.3 - 34.0 MPa	4390 - 4930 psi	Parallel to Grain
Shear Strength	4.14 MPa	600 psi	Parallel to Grain*
Impact	2.2	2.2	in-lb/in³; Work to Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
	6800	6800	psi; Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
Work to Elastic Limit	0.00303 J/cm³	0.440 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*
Work to Maximum Load	0.0345 J/cm³	5.00 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*

Thermal Properties	Metric	English	Comments
Thermal Conductivity	0.0865 W/m-K	0.600 BTU-in/hr-ft²-°F	Oven Dry
	0.104 W/m-K	0.720 BTU-in/hr-ft²-°F	12% Moisture Content
Shrinkage	3.6 %	3.6 %	Radial, from green to oven dry
	8.6 %	8.6 %	Tangential, from green to oven dry
	12.4 %	12.4 %	Volumetric, from green to oven dry

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