Wood Properties: Oak, white - Bur
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) | 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 (%) | tension perpendicular kPa (kPa) | thermal conductivity W mK (W/(m·K)) | volumetric shrinkage pct (%) | work to max load kJ m3 (kJ/m3) |
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| Oak, white - Bur | 12% | Hardwood | 41,800 | 8,300 | 0.163 | 0.072 | 0.086 | 740 | 7,100 | 71,000 | Domestic | 0.369 | 0.428 | 0.074 | 0.618 | 0.036 | 0.3 | 4.4 | 12,500 | 6,100 | 0.64 | 8.8 | 4,700 | 0.18 | 12.7 | 68 |
| Oak, white - Bur | Green | Hardwood | 22,700 | 4,700 | — | — | — | 1,120 | 6,100 | 50,000 | Domestic | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4.4 | 9,300 | 4,900 | 0.58 | 8.8 | 5,500 | 0.15 | 12.7 | 74 |
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