Information on the most widely used ASTM standards within the materials testing industry
ASTM D3043 covers several procedures for testing the flexural properties of structural panels. These panels can be of different materials used to form plane structures such as floors, walls and ceilings. These materials can include plywood, particle board, strand board, waterboard, oriented strand board, veneer composites, and other wood type materials.
Four methods of tests are included:
Method A Center-Point Flexure Test
Method B Two-Point Flexure Test
Method C Pure Moment Test
Method D Flexure Test for Quality Assurance
The choice of method will be dictated by the purpose of the test, type of material, and equipment availability. All methods are applicable to material that is relative uniform in strength and stiffness properties.
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ASTM D1037 - Standard Test Methods for Evaluating Properties of Wood-Base Fiber and Particle Panel Materials
ASTM D1037 test methods cover the determination of the properties of wood-base fiber and particle panel materials that are produced as mat-formed panels such a particleboard, medium density fiberboard, hardboard, and oriented strand board.
ASTM D1037 test methods cover small-specimen tests for wood-base fiber and particle panel materials that are made to provide: Data for comparing the mechanical and physical properties of various materials,
Data for determining the influence on the basic properties of such factors as raw material and processing variables, post-treatments of panels, and environmental influences, and
Data for manufacturing control, product research and development, and specification acceptance.
ASTM D6109 – Standard Test Methods for Flexural Properties of Unreinforced and Reinforced Plastic Lumber and Related Products
As Per ASTM D6109, "The test methods are suitable for determining the flexural properties for any solid or hollow manufactured plastic lumber product of square, rectangular, round, or other geometric cross section that shows viscoelastic behavior. The test specimens are whole "as manufactured" pieces without any altering or machining of surfaces beyond cutting to length. As such, this is a test method for evaluating the properties of plastic lumber as a product and not a material property test method. Flexural strength cannot be determined for those products that do not break or that do not fail in the extreme outer fiber."
Applicable Products: Plastic lumber products
ASTM D3500 Standard Test Methods for Structural Panels in Tension
ASTMD3500 test methods cover the determination of the tensile properties of wood structural panels. To determine the tensile properties of wood structural panels in response to stresses acting in the plane of the panle.
The Wood structural panels in use include plywood, oriented strand board and composites of veneer, and other wood-based layers.
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