Journal of Wood Science

Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 1 Mechanical and physical properties of members used in parallel chord truss specimens

From: Experimental and numerical analyses on nonlinear behaviour of wooden parallel chord trusses composed of self-tapping screws

Truss	Top chord			Bottom chord			Web	Strut
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(2)
	ρ	E	MC	ρ	E	MC	E _comp	E
	kg/m³	N/mm²	%	kg/m³	N/mm²	%	N/mm²	N/mm²
IST-2-1	499	10,341	15.4	453	8986	14.9	8688	8839
IST-2-2	483	9188	15.6	517	11,330	17.6	9429	11,524
IST-3-1	592	10,869	15.6	551	10,783	15.5	8263	11,524
IST-4-1	512	10,703	15.8	438	9127	15.0	7912	11,524
IST-4-2	518	11,859	15.7	476	11,663	15.4	8034	10,744

(1) Density, (2) modulus of elasticity parallel to the grain, (3) moisture content at test, (4) apparent modulus of elasticity of composite web member [refer to Eq. (1)]

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