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For. 485: Lignocellulosic Composite Materials. Lecture 1-4: Viscoelastic Behavior of Wood. Viscoelasticity. A viscoelastic material is one in which: hysteresis is seen in the stress-strain curve . stress relaxation occurs: step constant strain causes decreasing stress
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For. 485: Lignocellulosic Composite Materials Lecture 1-4: Viscoelastic Behavior of Wood
Viscoelasticity • A viscoelastic material is one in which: • hysteresis is seen in the stress-strain curve. • stress relaxation occurs: step constant strain causes decreasing stress • creep occurs: step constant stress causes increasing strain • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Viscoelasticity of Lignocellulosics • Attributable to the multicomponent polymer system comprising the cellular solid • Is manifested in thermo-compression processes FPL-GTR-149
OSB “mattress” or mat undergoing increasing compressive strain
Stress-strain diagram for a wood particle mat under compression
For more information… • …See the handout to accompany this discussion…an excerpt from Forest Products Lab General Technical Report, FPL-GTR-149 (source of the diagrams in this lecture) • Complete publication is available at:http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fpl_gtr149.pdf