Influence of Sahelian and Sudanian provenances on the physical and mechanical properties of Faidherbia albida wood from Chad

Faidherbia albida is a typical emblematic species of African dryland areas. In Chad, it used for many purposes, but very little known about the technological properties its wood, which sometimes leads to inappropriate uses. This work consisted study physical and mechanical this collected in Sahelian Sudanian chadian zone. As well as impact sampling areas these properties. The result obtained shows that, density, infradensity; modulus elasticity, compression strength were significantly higher zone than zone, i.e. 508 409 kg·m−3; 5555 23.7 MPa, compared 444 359 4150 19.6 MPa. total tangential shrinkage, volumetric fibre saturation point; static bending lower wood from 4.6%, 7.7%, 23.7%; 42.5 6.6%, 9.5%, 28.9%; 52.6 radial shrinkage values not different between two provenances (mean: 3.1%).