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Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Laminated Wood Structures Using a Homemade Bending Tester

Document Type

Article

Keywords

bending test; recurve bow; wood; laminates; modulus of rupture; flexural modulus

Journal/Book/Conference Title

American Journal of Undergraduate Research

Volume

15

Issue

3

First Page

35

Last Page

40

Abstract

The choice of materials used to build a laminate recurve bow is crucial to optimizing performance. To this end, a low-cost bending tester was designed and built to measure the flexural modulus and modulus of rupture on a variety of wooden laminates. To gain a better understanding of the relationship between the properties of the laminates and the individual species comprising the laminates, woods with a wide range of elastic and strength properties were chosen. Differences between the expected and experimental results are attributed to the properties of the adhesive and defects in the wood.

Department

Department of Physics

Original Publication Date

12-1-2018

DOI of published version

10.33697/ajur.2018.022

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