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Fracture Properties of Wood and Wood Composites
Author(s) -
StanzlTschegg Stefanie E.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
advanced engineering materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1527-2648
pISSN - 1438-1656
DOI - 10.1002/adem.200900048
Subject(s) - materials science , composite material , fracture (geology) , composite number , fracture mechanics , nanometre , matrix (chemical analysis) , micromechanics
Wood has a complex hierarchical structure and is a kind of polymeric composite with elongated cells in an amorphous matrix. Therefore, fracturing is a complicated process that is influenced by loading mode and direction, humidity, etc. Standard linear‐elastic fracture mechanics methods mostly cannot sufficiently quantify fracturing, and combining fracture mechanical with structural investigations at different levels of magnification (centimeter to nanometer levels) helps obtaining insight into the fracture mechanisms.