Wood is an indispensable building material for modern structures. As a kind of biological
material, it is more likely than other materials to be affected by the environment. It has been …

Despite the engineering importance of creep of composite materials and other fibrous
anisotropic load-carrying materials like wood, there is an apparent lack in useful …

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) slabs in residential buildings need additional weight, eg, in
the form of screeds or gravel layers, to fulfill the criterion for the highest impact-sound class …

Lignin, the second most abundant organic polymer on earth, is one of the primary causes of
the viscoelastic behavior of plants. An accurate characterization of its viscoelastic properties …

When wood is split or cut along the grain, a reduction in tensile stiffness has been observed.
The averaged mechanical properties of wood samples, veneers or splinters therefore …

Wood is enjoying increasing popularity in the building sector. In order to fully exploit the
potential of this material, particularly in two and three-dimensional structures, improved …

Material properties of wood under compression perpendicular to the grain and rolling shear
are important for the engineering design of timber structures. This regards the short-term …

This chapter aims at highlighting the benefit of numerical methods and their broad
application in the field of wood, engineered wood-based products (EWPs), structural …

Natural plant fibers are hierarchical structures with multi-level microstructures. With
advances in composite material science, these fibers have been widely used in various …

Wood has a hierarchical structure involving several levels of organisation. The stiffness of
wood relies on its capacity to transfer mechanical stress to its stiffest element at the lowest …