This review paper provides a comprehensive overview of hygrothermal modeling with a
focus on its application in mass timber construction, a sustainable and innovative …

The purpose of this review is to report on the state-of-the-art on the interaction of moisture
with natural materials and fabricated biomimetic functional materials, with an emphasis upon …

Timber constructions and engineered wood products exhibit a strong moisture-dependent
behavior, which needs to be sufficiently describable by models to avoid critical designs. For …

Experimental measurements of sorption isotherms show a difference between the water
contents in the adsorption phase and the desorption one. This is mainly due to the …

Moisture may significantly influence the dimensions and behavior of wooden elements and,
thus, it is important to consider within both serviceability as well as ultimate limit state …

The objective of this work is to study the hygroscopic behaviour of lignocellulosic materials
used in building insulation. Five lignocellulosic materials have been studied and compared …

The origin of sorption hysteresis in the wood-water system is still under debate. In
nanoporous-fluid systems, in general, hysteresis is explained as the manifestation of …

The independent domain theory is used to analyze the influence of sorption hysteresis on
the behavior of wood exposed to environmental conditions. Due to hysteresis, sorption …

Damage in oak wood museum objects under indoor climate variations (relative humidity,
temperature) is studied using a thermo-hygro-mechanical model. The model incorporates …

This paper introduces, with the development of user-subroutines in the finite-element
software Abaqus FEA®, a new practical analysis tool to simulate transient nonlinear …