Wood is a renewable resource with excellent qualities and the potential to become a key
element of a future bioeconomy. The increasing environmental awareness and drive to …

An overview of the micromechanical theoretical and numerical models of wood is presented.
Different methods of analysis of the effects of wood microstructures at different scale levels …

Glue-line tests provide the shear resistance and failure mode of samples extracted from
laminated timber products. Several papers questioned the practical use of such tests …

Increased use of wood has led to complex timber constructions and new types of
engineered wood products. In simulations, however, mainly simplified models are used to …

A 3D hierarchical computational model of deformation and stiffness of wood, which takes
into account the structures of wood at several scale levels (cellularity, multilayered nature of …

The dimensions, particularly the depths, of glued laminated timber (GLT) beams are
continuously increasing to realize, eg, wide-span hall constructions or flexible office …

The numerical simulation of four-point bending tests on glued laminated timber (GLT) beams
requires an adequate description of the material behavior and of relevant failure …

Knots and the resulting fiber deviations are the main influencing parameters of the effective
stiffness and strength behavior of wooden boards on a structural scale. Depending on the …

Within wooden boards, initiation and global direction of cracks are governed by structural
features on the microscale. Thus, and to account for the layered structure of wood, all …

This two-part paper covers the development and validation of a multiscale homogenization
model for macroscopic transport properties of wood. The starting point is the intrinsic …