American Red Maple Wood

American Red Maple Wood
Categories:	Wood and Natural Products; Wood; Hardwood
Material Notes:	Diffuse-Porous Hardwood Property values marked by an asterisk (*) have been taken from an unusually old reference source.
Key Words:	Acer rubrum; Lumber, Timber
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Physical Properties	Metric	English	Comments

Density	0.490 g/cc	0.0177 lb/in³	Oven Dry Weight/Unseasoned Volume
	0.801 g/cc	0.0289 lb/in³	Unseasoned*

Mechanical Properties	Metric	English	Comments
Hardness, Wood Indentation	2700 N	607 lb (f)	Side. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
	3300 N	742 lb (f)	End. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
Tensile Strength, Ultimate	4.00 MPa	580 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
Modulus of Rupture	0.0538 GPa	7.80 ksi	Static Bending*
Flexural Yield Strength	28.3 MPa	4100 psi	Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Static Bending*
Flexural Modulus	9.79 GPa	1420 ksi	Static Bending*
Compressive Strength	3.59 MPa	520 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
	17.2 MPa	2500 psi	Parallel to Grain*
	23.1 MPa	3350 psi	Max Crushing Strength Parallel to Grain*
Poissons Ratio	0.044	0.044	µ_TL, 12% Moisture Content
	0.063	0.063	µ_RL, 12% Moisture Content
	0.354	0.354	µ_TR, 12% Moisture Content
	0.434	0.434	µ_LR, 12% Moisture Content
	0.509	0.509	µ_LT, 12% Moisture Content
	0.762	0.762	µ_RT, 12% Moisture Content
Shear Strength	7.45 MPa	1080 psi	Parallel to Grain*
Impact	3.7	3.7	in-lb/in³; Work to Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
	9900	9900	psi; Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
Work to Elastic Limit	0.00414 J/cm³	0.600 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*
Work to Maximum Load	0.0731 J/cm³	10.6 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*
Cleavage	52.0 kN/m	297 lb/in	Radial surface of failure, Unseasoned*
	58.0 kN/m	331 lb/in	Tangential surface of failure, Unseasoned*

Thermal Properties	Metric	English	Comments
Thermal Conductivity	0.127 W/m-K	0.880 BTU-in/hr-ft²-°F	Oven Dry
	0.159 W/m-K	1.10 BTU-in/hr-ft²-°F	12% Moisture Content
Shrinkage	4.0 %	4.0 %	Radial; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	8.2 %	8.2 %	Tangential; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	12.8 %	12.8 %	Volumetric; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*

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