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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 1 Bearing properties of the differently oriented bearing specimens

From: Comparisons of bearing properties for various oriented glulam using digital image correlation

Pin diameter

Bearing properties

Orientationsa

RL

TL

RT

TR

LT

LR

12 mm

PLb (kN)

20.60 (0.12)e

20.95 (0.19)

14.60 (0.08)

13.16 (0.15)

8.44 (0.12)

6.74 (0.34)

Pyc (kN)

29.49 (0.11)

31.22 (0.13)

19.77 (0.08)

17.46 (0.12)

10.49 (0.14)

8.86 (0.32)

σbd (MPa)

22.57 (0.10)

21.90 (0.14)

13.53 (0.13)

12.41 (0.07)

7.31 (0.15)

6.47 (0.32)

  1. aGrain directions: longitudinal (L), radial (R), and tangential (T) (note: the first letter indicates the length direction of a pin lies and the second letter indicates the applied loading direction)
  2. bProportional limit load
  3. cYield load
  4. dBearing strength
  5. eCoefficient of variation