QUANTIFICATION OF SPATIAL VARIABILITY FOR TRANSVERSE ELASTIC MODULUS OF SPRUCE WOOD

Different factors such as age, location of timber within the tree, structural imperfections, load history such as wind and snow etc. can affect the material properties of timber. Consequently, there is a high variability in the mechanical properties which is sometimes referred to as ‘random spatial variability’. In this work, the spatial variability of the transverse elastic modulus of clear spruce wood is quantified by conducting mechanical...