Teak wood structural properties

[tweedledee]

Does anyone know what the structural properties of teak wood are??
I'm looking for Fb, Fv, Fc, E.

I cant find this in the NDS book. I dont know if there is a similar wood to teak that I can use.
Any ideas??

Thanks in advanse.

T

 

[JAE]

This link has some info on Teak:

http://www.eduhosting.org/windpics/wgwood.html

scroll down to the bottom or do a ctrl F search for "teak" and you'll see the table.

 

[JAE]

Here's another:

http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/publications/ch04.pdf

 

[berkshire]

Here is another source for wood properties.

http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/chemdata/woods.htm

B.E.

 

[tweedledee]

JAE, and Berkshire,
Thanks you both so much. Those links were really helpful.

T

 

[tweedledee]

Do you guys know if those values are allowabe?
The values seem high:
after conversion:

E = 1551904psi (this is OK)
Fc (paralell) = 8412 psi
Fc (perpendicular = 1885 psi

 

[JAE]

Well, E is simply E....its not allowable or otherwise...just the value of the wood.

The stresses - I would assume they are allowable...but read it for yourself and do some additional googling to compare. Usually the term Fx is an allowable stress term that is not used by LRFD.

 

[UcfSE]

http://www.exotichardwoods-eurasia.com/teak.htm

http://www.worldpanel.com/teak.htm

http://www.matweb.com/search/SpecificMaterial.asp?bassnum=PTSIH

Here are three more links I found. The numbers seem pretty high to me also, they are probably not allowable, but I don't know for sure.

 

[tweedledee]

JAE, UcfSE, thanks.

UcfSE,.. I completely forgot about the MATWEB site!!!\
Thanks

T