Mechanical Behavior in Hardwoods

Wood offers several advantages over other materials used in construction. In Brazil, ABNT NBR 7190:2022 specifies testing procedures for determining physical and mechanical properties, but these tests generally require specialized and costly facilities. The standard also provides empirical ratios relating parallel-to-grain shear strength to parallel-to-grain compressive strength. This study brings light to those relationships using results from compression and shear tests parallel to the gr...