Wood Properties: Maple, Sugar
Wood mechanical, physical, and thermal properties for 190+ hardwood and softwood species at green and 12% moisture content — including strength, stiffness, hardness, shrinkage, thermal conductivity, Poisson ratios, and elastic ratios from the USDA Wood Handbook
| species name | moisture content | category | compression parallel kPa (kPa) | compression perpendicular kPa (kPa) | elastic ratio ER EL (dimensionless) | elastic ratio ET EL (dimensionless) | elastic ratio GLR EL (dimensionless) | elastic ratio GLT EL (dimensionless) | fracture mode I TL kPa m05 (kPa·m^0.5) | impact bending mm (mm) | modulus of elasticity MPa (MPa) | modulus of rupture kPa (kPa) | origin | poisson LR (dimensionless) | poisson LT (dimensionless) | poisson RL (dimensionless) | poisson RT (dimensionless) | poisson TL (dimensionless) | poisson TR (dimensionless) | radial shrinkage pct (%) | shear parallel kPa (kPa) | side hardness N (N) | specific gravity (dimensionless) | tangential shrinkage pct (%) | tensile parallel kPa (kPa) | thermal conductivity W mK (W/(m·K)) | toughness radial J (J) | toughness tangential J (J) | volumetric shrinkage pct (%) | work to max load kJ m3 (kJ/m3) |
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| Maple, Sugar | 12% | Hardwood | 54,000 | 10,100 | 0.132 | 0.065 | 0.111 | 0.063 | 480 | 990 | 12,600 | 109,000 | Domestic | 0.424 | 0.476 | 0.065 | 0.774 | 0.037 | 0.349 | 4.8 | 16,100 | 6,400 | 0.63 | 9.9 | 108,200 | 0.18 | 6,000 | 5,900 | 14.7 | 114 |
| Maple, Sugar | Green | Hardwood | 27,700 | 4,400 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,020 | 10,700 | 65,000 | Domestic | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4.8 | 10,100 | 4,300 | 0.56 | 9.9 | 108,200 | 0.15 | — | — | 14.7 | 92 |
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