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Dynamic Testing and Evaluation of Modulus of Elasticity (MOE) of SPF Dimensional Lumber

2014; North Carolina State University; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15376/biores.9.3.3869-3882

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Zhiheng Wang, Zheng Wang, Brad Jianhe Wang, Yalei Wang, Bin Liu, Xin Rao, Peixing Wei, Yan Yang,

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The key objective of this work was to develop a cost-effective and reliable non-destructive testing (NDT) method to measure lumber modulus of elasticity (MOE).Test samples comprised 300 pieces of randomly selected imported Canadian 2"×6" SPF (Spruce -lodgepole Pine -alpine Fir) dimensional lumber.This work first adopted a modal test to achieve a free suspension for a subsequent vibration test.Then, the first-order natural frequency of 300 SPF dimensional lumber specimens was measured by the transient excitation frequency method, based on which MOE was then calculated.The results were also validated by a stress wave method using a Hitman tool.The measured lumber MOE data were further fitted using a Weibull distribution.The results showed that the MOE of SPF dimensional lumber followed either a three-parameter Weibull distribution or a normal distribution.It was estimated that the probability that the MOE of this SPF dimensional lumber was less than 8,000 MPa was about 13.8% and 13.6%, respectively, using the above two distributions.