RUBBERWOOD Technical Details

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RUBBERWOOD Technical Details
Name
Botanical name
Family
Origin
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Rubberwood
Hevea brasiliensis
Euphorbiaceae
South East Asia
Sapwood
Heartwood
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Not differentiated from the heartwood
Colour : whitish yellow till pale cream colour, often with a pinkish tinge
Grain: straight to shallowly interlocked
Texture is moderately coarse but even
parenchyma abundantly present
Properties
- volumal mass fresh cut
- volumal mass at 12 % M.C.
- volumal shrinkage for 1 % humidity
- total lineair shrinkage tangential
radial
- Compression Strength parallel to grain
- Static Bending MOE
- Static Bending MOR
Working properties
Solid wood : - sawing
- drying
- working properties
- finishing
Applications
Solid wood :
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800 kg/m3
560-640-720 kg/cm3
little to average
T % : 1,2 %
R % : 0.8 %
32 N/mm2
9200 N/mm2
66 N/mm2
: easily
: rather fast
risk on deformation: reasonable
risk on checks: reasonable
: easily
easy to laminate and to screw
good nailing : predrilling advised
: fairly smooth
- furniture parts
- parquet flooring
- staircases
- solid furniture (bedrooms, dining rooms,…)
- turning (table legs, bun feet, …)
- table tops
- worktops, panelling, doors
- household utility items, lightening, blockboard cores
- no natural durability without treatment
- wood must be treated to prevent blue stain – fungal attack
- treatability : easy
- other remark : plantation wood = environmentally friendly
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