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Wood Properties: Redwood, Young-growth
12% to Green
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) | elastic ratio GRT EL (dimensionless) | impact bending mm (mm) | modulus of elasticity MPa (MPa) | modulus of rupture kPa (kPa) | origin | poisson LR (dimensionless) | poisson LT (dimensionless) | poisson RT (dimensionless) | poisson TR (dimensionless) | shear parallel kPa (kPa) | side hardness N (N) | specific gravity (dimensionless) | tension perpendicular kPa (kPa) | thermal conductivity W mK (W/(m·K)) | work to max load kJ m3 (kJ/m3) |
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| Redwood, Young-growth | 12% | Softwood | 36,000 | 3,600 | 0.087 | 0.089 | 0.066 | 0.077 | 0.011 | 380 | 7,600 | 54,000 | Domestic | 0.36 | 0.346 | 0.373 | 0.4 | 7,600 | 1,900 | 0.35 | 1,700 | 0.11 | 36 |
| Redwood, Young-growth | Green | Softwood | 21,400 | 1,900 | — | — | — | — | — | 410 | 6,600 | 41,000 | Domestic | — | — | — | — | 6,100 | 1,600 | 0.34 | 2,100 | 0.09 | 39 |
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