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RESUMO -O conhecimento do comportamento da madeira mediante ações de curta duração contribui para um projeto estrutural mais seguro, entretanto não sendo a tenacidade parte integrante das propriedades mecânicas comumente investigadas na caracterização deste material. Este trabalho objetivou avaliar, com o uso de modelos de regressões polinomial linear, quadrática e cúbica, a possibilidade da estimativa da tenacidade com o conhecimento da densidade aparente de seis espécies de madeira (Angico, Eucalipto, Jatobá, Paricá, Pinus e Teca). Os resultados dos modelos de regressão evidenciaram a significância e representatividade de todos os ajustes investigados, consistindo o polinomial cúbico o mais eficiente na estimativa da tenacidade da madeira.Palavras-chave: Tenacidade; Modelos de regressão; Densidade aparente. WOODEN TOUGHNESS AS FUNCTION OF THE APPARENT DENSITYABSTRACT -The knowledge on the behavior of wood in situations of short load contributes to the development of a safer structural design. However, toughness is not part of the mechanical properties commonly investigated in the characterization of this material. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate, the possibility to estimate the toughness with the knowledge of the apparent density of 6 Brazilian tropical wooden species (Angico, Eucalyptus, Jatobá, Paricá, Pine and Teak), by using linear, quadratic and cubic polynomial regression models. The results highlighted the significance and representation of all adjustments investigated, and the cubic polynomial was the most efficient for estimating the wood toughness.

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Wood is a material widely used in various sectors of construction, such as in structures and building components. The volume of wood extracted from tropical forests has reached a considerable amount, and this wood is marketed with popular names without prior characterization. Wood density is an easy property to measure, and its use as an estimator of other properties is very common in this sector. This study investigated the possibility of the estimation of important quantities in dimensional stability of Brazilian tropical woods by using the density at 12% moisture content, anhydrous density, and basic density. Testing the ability to estimate radial, axial, tangential, and volumetric shrinkage, anisotropy coefficient, coefficient of volumetric rate of volumetric shrinkage, as well as the rate of volumetric swelling using the densities above, with linear, exponential, geometric, and logarithmic models, the best determination coefficient was: R 2 = 19.58%. The results were, in summary, that the variable density was not a good estimator of the dimensional stability of the wood.

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