Items for "wood products"

Failure mechanisms in wood-based materials: A review of discrete, continuum, and hybrid finite-element representations

Challenges arise in finite element (FE) analyses that predict mechanical failure in wood-based materials because their structural complexity is difficult to mimic...

Keywords: bolted connections, continuum models, damage modelling, discrete models, failure theories, finite element (FE) method, fracture mechanics, LEFM, wood products