Wood Technical Data |
IROKO |
IPE |
TEAK |
DESCRIPTION |
Full yellow and fresh color with golden tones, toodifferent from the clair yellowish albumen |
Brown, greenish and fresh color with vaiegates verging on yellowish and on reddish |
Purple brown color withour particular dark variegates different from the yellowish albumen |
FINISH |
Smooth |
Smooth |
Smooth |
GRAIN |
Only just perceptible |
perceptible |
Visible |
WEAVING |
Average-Coarse |
Definitely fine |
Definitely fine |
APPEARANCE |
Greasy |
Greasy |
Greasy |
FIBRE |
Wavy-Interwoven |
Irregular and sometimes interwoven |
Regular but also wavy |
RESISTANCE TO CHANGES |
Good |
Too elevated |
Elevated |
VOLUME WEIGHT |
Average in a humidity of approx. 12% corresponding to 650 kg/mc |
Wood Average in a humidity of approx. 12% corresponding to 900 kg/mc |
Average in a humidity of approx. 12% corresponding to 650 kg/mc |
RESISTANCE TO COLLISION |
Fairly good |
Average |
Fairly good |
AVERAGE RESISTANCE TO AXIAL COMPRESSION |
Approx. 560 Kg/cm2 |
Approx. 750 Kg/cm2 |
Approx. 550 Kg/cm2 |
AVERAGE RESISTANCE TO FLEXION |
Approx. 1200 Kg/cm2 |
Approx. 1600 Kg/cm2 |
Approx. 1200 Kg/cm2 |
AVERAGE MODULE OF ELASTICITY |
107.000 Kp/cm2 |
- |
110.000 Kp/cm2 |
FIXIBILITY |
Avarage |
Fairly good |
Low |
HARDNESS |
Avarage |
High |
Average |
NERVE |
Avarage-low |
- |
Low |