American White Ash Wood

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American White Ash Wood
Categories:	Wood and Natural Products; Wood; Hardwood
Material Notes:	Ring-Porous Hardwood. Least easy to work with hand tools. Excellent shaping, very good planing, very good steam bending. Data is based on small, clear, air-dried samples unless specified. Property values marked by an asterisk (*) have been taken from an unusually old reference source.
Key Words:	Fraxinus americana; Lumber, Timber
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Physical Properties	Original Value	Comments

Density	0.550 g/cc	Oven Dry Weight/Unseasoned Volume
	48.0 lb/ft³	Unseasoned*
Cell Length	1.20 mm	Mature Wood

Mechanical Properties	Original Value	Comments
Hardness, Wood Indentation	4000 N	Side. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
	4400 N	End. Force required to imbed a 0.444 inch steel ball to one-half its diameter
	5900 N	Side
Tensile Strength, Ultimate	6.50 MPa	Perpendicular to Grain
	620 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
Modulus of Rupture	0.106 GPa	In Bending
	9.10 ksi	Static Bending*
Flexural Yield Strength	61.4 MPa	Bending stress at proportional limit
	4900 psi	Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Static Bending*
Flexural Modulus	12.0 - 12.4 GPa	In Bending
	1350 ksi	Static Bending*
Compressive Strength	8.00 MPa	Perpendicular to Grain
	51.0 MPa	Parallel to Grain
	800 psi	Perpendicular to Grain*
	3230 psi	Parallel to Grain*
	3800 psi	Max Crushing Strength Parallel to Grain*
Poissons Ratio	0.051	µ_TL, 12% Moisture Content
	0.059	µ_RL, 12% Moisture Content
	0.36	µ_TR, 12% Moisture Content
	0.371	µ_LR, 12% Moisture Content
	0.44	µ_LT, 12% Moisture Content
	0.684	µ_RT, 12% Moisture Content
Shear Strength	13.4 MPa	Orientation Unknown
	1260 psi	Parallel to Grain*
Impact	5.0	in-lb/in³; Work to Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
	11700	psi; Fiber Stress at Elastic Limit; Unseasoned Sample; Impact Bending*
Work to Elastic Limit	1.03 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*
Work to Maximum Load	13.4 in-lb/in³	Static Bending*
Cleavage	58.0 kN/m	Radial surface of failure, Unseasoned*
	61.0 kN/m	Tangential surface of failure, Unseasoned*

Thermal Properties	Original Value	Comments
CTE, linear	9.50 µm/m-°C @Temperature 20.0 °C	Axial. Typical value for Ash.
Thermal Conductivity	0.980 BTU-in/hr-ft²-°F	Oven Dry
	1.20 BTU-in/hr-ft²-°F	12% Moisture Content
Shrinkage	4.9 %	Radial; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	7.9 %	Tangential; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*
	13.2 %	Volumetric; Unseasoned to Oven Dry*

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