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WOOD SCIENCE FOR CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE<br />

Fig. 5. Shear strain distribution in a cross laminated sold wood panel under mechanical load<br />

2.4. Sound velocity measurements<br />

Measuring the ultrasound velocity make calculating elastic constants (MOE; G) possible. Detecting<br />

knots and small defects, however, is difficult in most cases (Fig. 6, 7, 8).<br />

Fig. 6: Ultrasound testing equipment<br />

(Sylvatest 2)<br />

Fig. 8 Acoustic tomography of spruce with knots<br />

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Fig. 7: Sound propagation in a spruce sample<br />

with various holes

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