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Shear strength parallel to grain with distinct ray orientation on four Brazilian wood species

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Ray orientation (perpendicular, parallel and diagonal) was compared with respect to shear strength parallel to grain and specific gravity in four Brazilian wood species. Higher absolute strengths occurred with ray oriented perpendicular to the shear plane, and lower ones for parallel orientation for almost all species. In particular, specimens with parallel ray orientation to shear plane did not differ statistically from shear values when compared to specimens having perpendicular and diagonal orientation to shear plane.

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The authors thank Nadir dos Santos Ferreira, João Donizete Garcia and Israel Luiz de Lima for field work (Forestry Institute—IF), as well as Adriano Peres Ribeiro (Forestry Institute—IF) and Ailton de Lima Lucas (UNESP—Botucatu) for laboratory assistance. We also thank the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico—CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development—121304/2013-2) for a Grant to Gabriela Trindade Pires.

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  1. Instituto Florestal, Divisão de Dasonomia, Seção de Madeira e Produtos Florestais, São Paulo, Brazil

    Eduardo Luiz Longui, Gabriela Trindade Pires & José Arimatéia Rabelo Machado

  2. Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

    Adriano Wagner Ballarin

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Longui, E.L., Pires, G.T., Ballarin, A.W. et al. Shear strength parallel to grain with distinct ray orientation on four Brazilian wood species. Eur. J. Wood Prod. 75, 663–665 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00107-016-1129-8

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