Breaking Point (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Breaking Point

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Panels of CLT were placed into a strength-testing machine at the UMass Wood Mechanics Lab, where a giant steel arm put thousands of pounds of pressure on the engineered wood until it broke.

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Peggi Clouston/UMass Amherst

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