Viscoelasticity of aspen wood strands during hot pressing: Experimentation and modeling

Holzforschung

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 713-723

  Zhou, Cheng ^a   Dai, Chunping ^b   Smith, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

Author keywords

hot pressing; modeling; moisture content; oriented strand board (OSB); stress relaxation; temperature; transverse compression; viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

ASPEN WOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; IMPOSED STRAINS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LOG-LOG PLOTS; MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENT; MOISTURE CONTENTS; ORIENTED STRAND BOARDS; RELAXATION MODULUS; STRAND STRESS; TRANSVERSE COMPRESSION; VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIORS; WOOD COMPOSITES; WOOD STRANDS;

ELASTICITY; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRESS RELAXATION; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

HOT PRESSING;

ELASTICITY; HOT PRESSING; MOISTURE CONTENT; ORIENTED STRAND BOARDS; STRESS RELAXATION; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 77958067873     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: 1437434X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.2010.112     Document Type: Article

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