Items for "composite material"

Micromechanical modeling of solid-type and plate-type deformation patterns within softwood materials. A review and an improved approach

Wood exhibits a highly diverse microstructure. It appears as a solid-type composite material at a length scale of some micrometers, while it resembles an assembly of plate-like elements arranged in a honeycomb fashion at the length scale of some hundreds of micrometers...

Keywords: cell wall, cellular structure, chemical composition, composite material, continuum micromechanics, elasticity, microstructure, multi-scale model, periodic homogenization, random homogenization, softwood, unit cell method