Authors: J Ratnasingam Florin Ioras
Publish Date: 2013/01/25
Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 287-289
Abstract
The load bearing characteristics of heattreated rubberwood furniture components and joints were studied It was found that heattreated samples had significantly lower fatigue strength compared to the conventionally kilndried rubberwood samples which were used as control specimens Inevitably the recommended allowable design stresses for heattreated rubberwood furniture components and joints could be set at 40 and 25 of the respective bending strengths in order to ensure its compliance with furniture performance standards These figures are much lower than the allowable design stresses for conventionally kiln dried components reflecting the need for a lower safety margin when working with heattreated materials
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