Modified Osgood Equation for Acacia Mangium

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the Osgood’s coefficient of species and the Modified Osgood Equation for Acacia mangium. Acacia mangium trees were cut to produce oven-dried Small Clear Specimens that were then tested until fracture. Results were gathered from static tensile tests in the direction parallel (0° angle), perpendicular (90° angle) and at 30° angle to the wood grain. All test results confirmed that the Acacia mangium wood is brittle as there was no obvious necking observed on the test specimens. From the static testing, the Osgood’s coefficient of species for Acacia mangium, (a), is identified algebraically to be 0.49. Acacia mangium, by nature, has a significant difference in the strengths parallel and perpendicular to the grain line. The finalized results of the Ultimate Tensile Strength for 15-year old Acacia mangium demonstrated that the Ultimate Tensile Strength in parallel and perpendicular to the grain directions are 143.87 MPa and 6.32 MPa respectively, while the Ultimate Tensile Strength at 30° grain angle is 32.985 MPa. An extreme reduction of 95.6% of the Ultimate Tensile Strength was identified between 0° and 90° grain angles with a decreased value from 143.87 MPa to 6.32 MPa.