“Short-term” mechano-sorptive creep of well-defined spruce timber
“Short-term” mechano-sorptive creep of well-defined spruce timber
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10.1007/s001070050483
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2001-04
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C. Bengtsson
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C. Bengtsson
In this paper creep test results in bending in a variable climate, 30-90% relative humidity (RH), are presented. Eighty-one specimens, 45× 70× 1100 mm, from fifteen both fast-grown and slow-grown trees with well-documented history were tested. The duration of the creep tests was at least 42 days. Simple statistical methods were used to evaluate the creep test results. For a part of the material the short-term creep, after 1-1.5 moisture cycles, was compared with relative creep after additional moisture cycles. The relative creep after 1-1.5 moisture cycles was a good predictor of the relative creep after additional moisture cycles. The wide range in material properties was not completely reflected in the relative creep test results. It seemed like the variation in relative creep decreased with increasing amount of moisture cycles. It was not possible to confirm a statistically significant difference in relative creep between specimens from the slow-grown and the fast-grown stands. For specimens assumed to contain juvenile wood and mature wood, there was a statistically significant difference in relative creep after 1-1.5, 3-3.5 and 5-5.5 moisture cycles. Specimens assumed to contain juvenile wood showed the largest relative creep values. In the test material, 81 specimens, a variation in deformation during the first moisture change of 14%-97% of the initial elastic deformation was found. The correlation between this deformation and material parameters was weak. However, the largest deformations during the first moisture change were obtained for specimens from three trees. The moisture conditions when the creep tests started (30% RH or 90% RH) were not a governing factor for the creep behaviour.