The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology to determine the uncertainty calculation in the compression parallel to grain strength test. Subsidies were collected to justify the application of the Procedure for Uncertainty Calculation as a normative requirement and integrant part of the report on wood characterization testing. The motivation to the presentation of this proposal is due to the existing difficulty to meet some technical requirements of standard ABNT 2005 - NBR ISO/IEC 17025, especially requirement 5.9 "Quality guarantee of the calibration and testing results". The methodology proposed consolidates all the necessary procedures to obtain the uncertainty calculation for the individual ultimate stress and the mean ultimate stress uncertainty results. This methodology meets the requirements of the Quality Guarantee System. The uncertainty values obtained from the individual results of the ultimate stress were little significant, indicating a high quality of the equipments and their good calibration. On the other hand, determination of the uncertainty of the mean ultimate stress was very significant, indicating its importance to improve the safety of wood engineering.
Eucalyptus cloeziana; compression testing; uncertainty calculation
