CSA O452 SERIES : 0

Technical Committee on OSB and Waferboard
Subcommittee on Design Rated OSB
Preface
Introduction
O452.0
Design Rated OSB: Specifications
1 Scope
2 Reference Publications
3 Definitions
4 Design Rating Process
   4.1 Initial Requirements
   4.2 Product Types
   4.3 Certification Organization Evaluation
       Responsibilities
5 General Requirements
   5.1 Prerequisites
   5.2 Bond Durability
   5.3 Mechanical Properties
   5.4 Thicknesses
   5.5 Test Methods and Conditioning
   5.6 Product Evaluation
   5.7 Mill Specification
   5.8 Manufacturing Changes
   5.9 Mill Quality Manual
6 Qualification Tests
   6.1 General
   6.2 Testing
   6.3 Sample Selection
   6.4 Moisture Content/Conditioning
   6.5 Treatment of Test Data
   6.6 Determination of Design Ratings and PROPRIETARY
       OSB Values
7 Control Value Tests
   7.1 General
   7.2 Test Properties
   7.3 Sample Selection
   7.4 Sample Size
   7.5 Moisture Content/Conditioning
   7.6 Testing
   7.7 Determination of Control Values
8 Quality Assurance Tests
   8.1 General
9 Marking
   9.1 General
   9.2 Required Marking
   9.3 Certificates of Conformance for PROPRIETARY
       Products
   9.4 Location of Marks
   9.5 Duplicate Design Rating Marks
   9.6 Invalid Design Rating Marks
   9.7 Legibility and Durability of Marking
   9.8 Nonspecified Marks
Figure
Tables
Appendices
A - Other Properties
B - Capacity Classifications for STANDARD Design Rated
    OSB (Imperial Units)
O452.1
Design Rated OSB: Test Methods
1 Scope
2 Reference Publications
3 Definitions
4 Moisture Content/Conditioning
   4.1 Conditioning for Qualification Tests
   4.2 Conditioning for Control Value and Quality
       Assurance Tests
   4.3 Conditioning for Bond Durability/CSA-O452 Tests
   4.4 Conditioning for Moisture Conditioning Factor
5 Test Specimens
   5.1 Selection
6 Test Methods
   6.1 Bond Durability/CSA-O452
   6.2 Flexure (Large Bending)
   6.3 Tension
   6.4 Compression
   6.5 Shear-Through-Thickness
   6.6 Planar Shear (Shear-in-Plane)
   6.7 Basic Properties
   6.8 Binder Test
7 Indirect Tests for Quality Control Testing
   7.1 General
   7.2 Specimens
   7.3 Test
   7.4 Calculations and Report
O452.2
Design Rated OSB: Quality Assurance
1 Scope
2 Reference Publications
3 Definitions
4 Responsibility for Product Quality
5 Mill Quality Control
   5.1 General
   5.2 Quality Control Personnel
   5.3 Quality Manual
   5.4 Quality Control Record Keeping
   5.5 Test Equipment
6 Certification Organization Quality Appraisal
   Responsibilities
   6.1 General
   6.2 Certification
   6.3 Mill Visits
   6.4 Notifications
7 Quality Assurance Tests
   7.1 Monitoring Tests
   7.2 Monitoring Retests
   7.3 Reaffirmation Tests
Tables
O452.3
Design Rated OSB: Commentary
Introduction
CSA Standard 0452.0, Design Rated OSB: Specifications
CSA Standard 0452.1, Design Rated OSB: Test Methods
CSA Standard 0452.2, Design Rated OSB: Quality Assurance
Bibliography

Pertains to OSB panels intended for use in engineered design applications and covers three types of Design rated OSB panels: Type 1 (STANDARD), Type 2 (PLUS), Type 3 (PROPRIETARY).