Wood Testing

Mechanical Testing Solutions for Wood & Paper

ADMET has helped a number of companies involved in the wood, paper, cardboard, and corrugated industry with their testing needs. Our materials testing systems are capable of testing raw materials, components, and finished products. Customers have used our machines to test paper for tensile strength and elongation, corrugated for crush resistance, and timber to measure flexural strength. Our universal systems can be used for compression, tension, bend, peel, puncture, and peel testing.

Common testing standards for wood and paper include:

• ASTM D143 – Standard Test Methods for Small Clear Specimens of Timber
• ASTM D198 – Standard Test Methods of Static Tests of Lumber in Structural Sizes
• ASTM D828 – Standard Test Method for Tensile Properties of Paper and Paperboard Using Constant-Rate-of-Elongation Apparatus
• ASTM D905 – Standard Test Method for Strength Properties of Adhesive Bonds in Shear by Compression Loading
• ASTM D1037 – Standard Test Methods for Evaluating Properties of Wood-Base Fiber and Particle Panel Materials
• ASTM D1761- Standard Test Method for Mechanical Fasteners in Wood
• ISO 1924 – Paper and board — Determination of tensile properties
• ISO 12625-4 – Tissue paper and tissue products — Part 4: Determination of tensile strength, stretch at maximum force and tensile energy absorption
• ISO 12625-5 – Tissue paper and tissue products — Part 5: Determination of wet tensile strength
• TAPPI T456 – Tensile breaking strength of water-saturated paper and paperboard
• TAPPI T494 – Tensile properties of paper and paperboard