Abstract
The knowledge of the behaviour of wood over time is important in the design of timber structures. This study, which is part of a program to better understand the behaviour of tropical woods, aims at showing the effect of creep in wood. Observations were made on the development of the deflection in a uniformly stressed beam under controlled temperature and humidity conditions. The results obtained show that for stresses not greater than 35% of the stress at failure, the behaviour of the species tested is linear. In these cases, the total relative creep is not more than 35%. Similar results have been obtained for four cameroonian species: Azobe, Tali, Sapelli and Movingui.
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