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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 1 Physical properties of wood boards with three different grain patterns

From: Flexural anisotropy of rift-sawn softwood boards induced by the end-grain orientation

Species

Grain pattern

Grain angle (°)a,b

Density (g/cm3)a

MC (%)a,c

Chamaecyparis obtusa

Flat

4.1 (1.22)d

0.38 (0.005)

10.6 (0.51)

Rift

49.7 (2.67)

0.41 (0.014)

9.7 (0.38)

Quarter

81.4 (3.60)

0.40 (0.002)

10.0 (0.86)

Cryptomeria japonica

Flat

4.9 (2.40)

0.35 (0.015)

11.4 (0.31)

Rift

43.3 (5.55)

0.33 (0.005)

10.6 (0.93)

Quarter

83.6 (1.98)

0.34 (0.002)

11.7 (0.58)

Populus suaveolens

Flat

8.9 (3.40)

0.44 (0.020)

9.3 (0.35)

Rift

47.8 (1.95)

0.39 (0.006)

9.9 (0.74)

Quarter

86.2 (1.35)

0.41 (0.007)

10.0 (0.50)

Cerasus serrulata

Flat

7.3 (2.39)

0.69 (0.010)

9.3 (0.31)

Rift

51.7 (16.3)

0.68 (0.016)

9.3 (0.10)

Quarter

83.3 (4.91)

0.65 (0.009)

9.6 (0.42)

  1. aMean value of five specimens; bgrowth ring angle in the transverse plane; cmoisture content; dstandard deviation