American Red Spruce Wood

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American Red Spruce Wood
Categories:	Wood and Natural Products; Wood; Softwood
Material Notes:	Conifer Property values marked by an asterisk (*) have been taken from an unusually old reference source.
Key Words:	Picea rubens; Lumber, Timber
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Physical Properties	Metric	English	Comments

Density	0.380 g/cc	0.0137 lb/in³	Oven Dry Weight/Unseasoned Volume
	0.545 g/cc	0.0197 lb/in³	Unseasoned*

Mechanical Properties	Metric	English	Comments
Hardness, Wood Indentation	1600 N	360 lb (f)	Side. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
	1900 N	427 lb (f)	End. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
Tensile Strength, Ultimate	1.52 MPa	220 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
Modulus of Rupture	0.0393 GPa	5.70 ksi	Static Bending*
Flexural Yield Strength	23.4 MPa	3400 psi	Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Static Bending*
Flexural Modulus	8.14 GPa	1180 ksi	Static Bending*
Compressive Strength	2.41 MPa	350 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
	15.7 MPa	2280 psi	Max Crushing Strength Parallel to Grain*
	16.3 MPa	2360 psi	Parallel to Grain*
Shear Strength	5.31 MPa	770 psi	Parallel to Grain*
Impact	2.3	2.3	in-lb/in³; Work to Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
	7200	7200	psi; Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
Work to Elastic Limit	0.00386 J/cm³	0.560 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*
Work to Maximum Load	0.0421 J/cm³	6.10 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*

Thermal Properties	Metric	English	Comments
Thermal Conductivity	0.0994 W/m-K	0.690 BTU-in/hr-ft²-°F	Oven Dry
	0.121 W/m-K	0.840 BTU-in/hr-ft²-°F	12% Moisture Content
Shrinkage	3.8 %	3.8 %	Radial; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	7.8 %	7.8 %	Tangential; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	11.7 %	11.7 %	Volumetric; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*

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