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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 1 Results of the short-term loading tests

From: Long-term bending properties of cross-laminated timber made from Japanese larch under constant environment

No

Density (kg/m3)

Pmax (kN)

δmax (mm)

Em (kN/mm2)

σb (N/mm2)

Time to failure (min)

MC (%)

1-C

518

69.73

55.98

8.50

22.8

5.4

9.6

2-C

513

81.66

63.74

8.43

26.7

5.9

9.3

3-C

530

70.08

56.81

8.56

22.9

5.4

9.0

4-C

520

73.45

53.82

9.28

24.0

5.2

9.3

5-C

513

79.42

66.83

8.33

26.0

6.0

9.0

6-C

515

68.12

53.99

8.69

22.3

5.2

9.3

7-C

504

73.88

57.61

8.39

24.2

6.6

8.9

8-C

514

83.37

70.11

8.36

27.3

6.5

9.7

9-C

512

66.55

61.11

7.99

21.7

5.6

8.9

10-C

515

78.50

65.33

8.55

25.7

6.1

9.0

11-C

518

95.36

71.26

8.86

31.3

6.5

8.9

Mean

516

76.37

61.51

8.54

25.0

5.9

9.1

SD

6

8.45

6.33

0.33

2.8

0.5

0.3

  1. Pmax is the maximum load, δmax is the displacement at Pmax, Em is the bending modulus of elasticity (Eq. 1), σb is the bending strength (Eq. 2), MC is moisture content, and SD is the standard deviation