• Frontispiece. Photomicrograph of a small block of western hemlock
  • 1. Stress-strain diagrams of two longleaf pine beams
  • 2. Compression across the grain
  • 3. Side view of failures in compression across the grain
  • 4. End view of failures in compression across the grain
  • 5. Testing a buggy-spoke in endwise compression
  • 6. Unequal distribution of stress in a long column due to lateral bending
  • 7. Endwise compression of a short column
  • 8. Failures of a short column of green spruce
  • 9. Failures of short columns of dry chestnut
  • 10. Example of shear along the grain
  • 11. Failures of test specimens in shear along the grain
  • 12. Horizontal shear in a beam
  • 13. Oblique shear in a short column
  • 14. Failure of a short column by oblique shear
  • 15. Diagram of a simple beam
  • 16. Three common forms of beams - (1) simple, (2) cantilever, (3) continuous
  • 17. Characteristic failures of simple beams
  • 18. Failure of a large beam by horizontal shear
  • 19. Torsion of a shaft
  • 20. Effect of torsion on different grades of hickory
  • 21. Cleavage of highly elastic wood
  • 22. Cross-sections of white ash, red gum, and eastern hemlock
  • 23. Cross-section of longleaf pine
  • 24. Relation of the moisture content to the various strength values of spruce
  • 25. Cross-section of the wood of western larch showing fissures in the thick-walled cells of the late wood
  • 26. Progress of drying throughout the length of a chestnut beam
  • 27. Excessive season checking
  • 28. Control of season checking by the use of S-irons
  • 29. Static bending test on a large beam
  • 30. Two methods of loading a beam
  • 31. Static bending test on a small beam
  • 32. Sample log sheet, giving full details of a transverse bending test on a small pine beam
  • 33. Endwise compression test
  • 34. Sample log sheet of an endwise compression test on a short pine column
  • 35. Compression across the grain
  • 36. Vertical section of shearing tool
  • 37. Front view of shearing tool
  • 38. Two forms of shear test specimens
  • 39. Making a shearing test
  • 40. Impact testing machine
  • 41. Drum record of impact bending test
  • 42. Abrasion machine for testing the wearing qualities of woods
  • 43. Design of tool for testing the hardness of woods by indentation
  • 44. Design of tool for cleavage test
  • 45. Design of cleavage test specimen
  • 46. Designs of tension test specimens used in United States
  • 47. Design of tension test specimen used in New South Wales
  • 48. Design of tool and specimen for testing tension at right angles to the grain
  • 49. Making a torsion test on hickory
  • 50. Method of cutting and marking test specimens
  • 51. Diagram of specific gravity apparatus