American Red Gum Wood

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American Red Gum Wood
Categories:	Wood and Natural Products; Wood; Hardwood
Material Notes:	Property values marked by an asterisk (*) have been taken from an unusually old reference source.
Key Words:	Lumber, Timber
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Physical Properties	Metric	English	Comments

Density	0.440 g/cc	0.0159 lb/in³	Oven Dry Weight/Unseasoned Volume
	0.801 g/cc	0.0289 lb/in³	Unseasoned*

Mechanical Properties	Metric	English	Comments
Hardness, Wood Indentation	2300 N	517 lb (f)	Side. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
	2800 N	629 lb (f)	End. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
Tensile Strength, Ultimate	3.52 MPa	510 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
Modulus of Rupture	0.0469 GPa	6.80 ksi	Static Bending*
Flexural Yield Strength	25.5 MPa	3700 psi	Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Static Bending*
Flexural Modulus	7.93 GPa	1150 ksi	Static Bending*
Compressive Strength	3.17 MPa	460 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
	16.3 MPa	2360 psi	Parallel to Grain*
	19.6 MPa	2840 psi	Max Crushing Strength Parallel to Grain*
Shear Strength	7.38 MPa	1070 psi	Parallel to Grain*
Impact	3.9	3.9	in-lb/in³; Work to Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
	10000	10000	psi; Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
Work to Elastic Limit	0.00558 J/cm³	0.810 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*
Work to Maximum Load	0.0648 J/cm³	9.40 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*

Thermal Properties	Metric	English	Comments
Shrinkage	5.2 %	5.2 %	Radial; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	9.9 %	9.9 %	Tangential; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	15 %	15 %	Volumetric; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*

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