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Excerpt from The Mechanical Properties of Wood Although intended primarily as a textbook for students of wood technology and forest utilization, this book has been written with the hope that it may also find use as a source of information for others desiring a knowledge of the technical properties of wood. In serving this objective, comprehensive tables presenting fundamental strength and related properties for more than one hundred and fifty American woods as well as tables of recommended basic and working-stress values for structural species have been incorporated in the text. Examples illustrating the derivation and application of stress values are provided. The treatment of certain phases of the text, especially those dealing with factors affecting the strength of wood and with working stresses and the basis for grading rules for structural lumber, has been made as complete as possible in the space available. An attempt has been made to avoid unnecessary technical language and descriptions, so that it may be understood by all those interested in wood. The preparation of this book was suggested by Dean George A. Garratt whose work of the same title, published in 1931, is well known in the field of wood technology. Although the present publication is based on Garratt's Mechanical Properties of Wood, subsequent developments in timber mechanics and timber engineering and the increase in knowledge relating to the effects of various factors on the properties of wood have necessitated extensive revision. The arrangement and method of treatment of its predecessor are retained, but the presentation of much of the subject matter is entirely new. Part 1 deals with stress and strain relationships of wood, an appreciation of which is essential to an understanding of its mechanical behavior. Much of the discussion in this section is elementary mechanics of materials in general, although it is written with special reference to wood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.