ASTM D3499-94(2005)
(Test Method)Standard Test Method for Toughness of Wood-Based Structural Panels
Standard Test Method for Toughness of Wood-Based Structural Panels
SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
The failure of wood-based materials with impact loads is sometimes an important criteria in design considerations. In addition, some effects on the mechanical properties of wood, such as decay, are best evaluated by measuring its toughness. This test method serves to evaluate the toughness of structural panel products while Methods D 143 can be used to measure the toughness of solid clear wood specimens.
SCOPE
1.1 This test method for toughness of wood-based structural panels covers the determination of energy necessary to cause failure by impact loading of a beam specimen which is simply supported and loaded at midspan. Wood-based structural panels in use include plywood, waferboard, oriented strand board, and composites of veneer and of wood-based layers.
1.2 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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Designation:D3499–94 (Reapproved2005)
Standard Test Method for
Toughness of Wood-Based Structural Panels
This standard is issued under the fixed designation D3499; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the Department of Defense.
1. Scope 3. Significance and Use
1.1 This test method for toughness of wood-based structural 3.1 The failure of wood-based materials with impact loads
panels covers the determination of energy necessary to cause is sometimes an important criteria in design considerations. In
failure by impact loading of a beam specimen which is simply addition, some effects on the mechanical properties of wood,
supported and loaded at midspan. Wood-based structural pan- such as decay, are best evaluated by measuring its toughness.
els in use include plywood, waferboard, oriented strand board, This test method serves to evaluate the toughness of structural
and composites of veneer and of wood-based layers. panel products while Methods D143 can be used to measure
1.2 This standard does not purport to address all of the the toughness of solid clear wood specimens.
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
4. Apparatus
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
4.1 The toughness testing machine (Note 1) shall consist of
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use. a frame supporting a pendulum, being so arranged that a
measured amount of the energy from the fall of the pendulum
2. Referenced Documents
may be applied to a test specimen. The pendulum shall consist
2.1 ASTM Standards: of a bar to which is fastened a weight adjustable to different
D143 Test Methods for Small Clear Specimens of Timber positions and shall carry at its upper end a drum or pulley
D2395 Test Methods for Specific Gravity of Wood and whose center provides the axis of rotation. The force shall be
Wood-Based Materials applied to the specimen by means of a flexible steel cable
D4442 Test Methods for Direct Moisture Content Measure- passing over the drum.Astationary graduated scale or dial and
ment of Wood and Wood-Base Materials a vernier operated by the moving drum shall be provided for
reading the angles through which the pendulum swings. The
machine shall be adjusted before test so that the pendulum
This test method is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D07 on Wood hangs truly vertical and adjusted to correct for friction. The
and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee D07.03 on Panel Products.
cable shall be adjusted so that the load is applied to the
Current edition approved Oct. 1, 2005. Published October 2005. Originally
specimen when the pendulum swings to within approximately
approved in 1976. Last previous edition approved in 2000 as D3499 – 74 (2000).
15°oftheverticalsoastoproducecompletefailurebythetime
DOI: 10.1520/D3499-94R05.
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the downward swing is completed.
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NOTE 1—The set-up shown in Fig. 1 has been found to give satisfactory
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D3499–94 (2005)
FIG. 1 Toughness Test of Structural Panel Showing Load Applied to Specimen When Pendulum is Approximately 15° from the Vertical
5. Test Specimen to the span length taken from Table 1 which provides for a
specimen overhang of 1 in. (25 mm) at each end.
5.1 The toughness test specimen to be used in conjunction
with the Forest Products Laboratory toughness testing machine
5 5
8. Loading Procedure
shall be ⁄8 in. (16 mm) in width for material less than ⁄8 in. (16
mm) in thickness, and the thickness of the specimen shall be
8.1 Apply the load at the center of the span perpendicular to
equal to that of the material. For material more than ⁄8 in. (16
the plane of the plies.Apply the load through a tup, attached to
mm) in thickness, the width shall be equal to the thickness of
a flexible cable, having a radius of curvature approximately
the material, thus making the specimen square in cross section.
equal to one and one-half times the depth of the test specimen.
The length shall be determined from the thickness of the
Choose the weight position and initial angle of the pendulum
material in accordance with Table 1. The actual cross-sectional
so that complete failure of the specimen is obtained on one
dimensions, and the specimen and span l
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