If there is one domain of civil engineering in which adhesives are currently booming, then it
is timber engineering. Natural adhesives have been used for centuries to structurally …

Wooden structures are quite complex with respect to their material properties as well as to
their structural response and, therefore, need to be simulated appropriately by means of …

Umfassend und verständlich führen die Autoren in die" Technische Mechanik
deformierbarer fester Körper"(Festigkeitslehre) ein. Anhand zahlreicher, vollständig …

Recent biaxial experiments on spruce wood show that consideration of an elliptic failure
surface according to Tsai and Wu, and of an elastic model for stress states within this …

Wood as the most important natural and renewable building material plays an important role
in the construction sector. Nevertheless, its hygroscopic character basically affects all related …

The failure behavior of wood, a complex natural composite, highly depends on structural
features on several lower length scales. Thus, a new approach for the prediction of failure …

Timber joints with their simultaneous ductile and brittle failure modes still pose a major
challenge when it comes to modelling. Wood is heterogeneous and highly anisotropic. It …

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 …

A new hygro-mechanically coupled material model to simulate the structural behaviour of
wooden objects below the fibre saturation area is introduced. A multi-F ick ian moisture …

Dowel-type steel-to-timber connections are commonly used to transfer a large range of
loads. Although they are simple to produce and assemble, the load-carrying behavior and …