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This paper deals with the fracture problem in timber structures subject to  mechanical and climatic loadings. Mechanical tests illustrate local and global  fracture properties at different moisture content levels on DCB specimens of  douglas fire. It is shown the dependence of moisture content in terms of  compliance and energy release rate. To highlight the hygro-mechanical coupling,  tests employ an electromechanical press associated with an environmental chamber  in which humidity and air temperature are regulated. Two families of tests are  performed, the first in dry state conditions and the second in a wet state  conditions. The main objective of this paper is to fix first experimental  results in order to integrate, in future works, mechano-sorptive effects on the  crack growth process by taking into account moisture content variations in the  crack tip vicinity associated with sorption kinetics

Experimental approach about fracture process in timber elements under mechano-sorptive effects