American Chestnut Wood

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

Density	0.400 g/cc	0.0145 lb/in³	Oven Dry Weight/Unseasoned Volume
	0.881 g/cc	0.0318 lb/in³	Unseasoned*

Mechanical Properties	Metric	English	Comments
Hardness, Wood Indentation	1900 N	427 lb (f)	Side. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
	2400 N	540 lb (f)	End. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
Tensile Strength, Ultimate	2.96 MPa	430 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
Modulus of Rupture	0.0386 GPa	5.60 ksi	Static Bending*
Flexural Yield Strength	21.4 MPa	3100 psi	Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Static Bending*
Flexural Modulus	6.41 GPa	930 ksi	Static Bending*
Compressive Strength	2.62 MPa	380 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
	14.1 MPa	2040 psi	Parallel to Grain*
	17.0 MPa	2470 psi	Max Crushing Strength Parallel to Grain*
Shear Strength	5.52 MPa	800 psi	Parallel to Grain*
Impact	2.8	2.8	in-lb/in³; Work to Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
	7900	7900	psi; Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
Work to Elastic Limit	0.00407 J/cm³	0.590 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*
Work to Maximum Load	0.0483 J/cm³	7.00 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*

Thermal Properties	Metric	English	Comments
Thermal Conductivity	0.105 W/m-K	0.730 BTU-in/hr-ft²-°F	Oven Dry
	0.128 W/m-K	0.890 BTU-in/hr-ft²-°F	12% Moisture Content
Shrinkage	3.3 %	3.3 %	Radial, from green to oven dry
	3.4 %	3.4 %	Radial; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	6.7 %	6.7 %	Tangential; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	7.9 %	7.9 %	Tangential, from green to oven dry
	11.1 %	11.1 %	Volumetric; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	11.8 %	11.8 %	Volumetric, from green to oven dry

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