Review of state of the art of dowel laminated timber members and densified wood materials as sustainable engineered wood products for construction and building applications

Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Engineered Wood Products (EWPs) are increasingly being used as construction and building materials. However, the predominant use of petroleum-based adhesives in EWPs contributes to the release of toxic gases (e.g. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and formaldehyde) which are harmful to the environment. Also, the use of adhesives in EWPs affects their end-of-life disposal, reusability and recyclability. This paper focusses on dowel laminated timber members and densified wood materials, which are adhesive free and sustainable alternatives to commonly used EWPs (e.g. glulam and CLT). The improved mechanical properties and tight fitting due to spring-back of densified wood support their use as sustainable alternatives to hardwood fasteners to overcome their disadvantages such as loss of stiffness over time and dimensional instability. This approach would also contribute to the uptake of dowel laminated timber members and densified wood materials for more diverse and advanced structural applications and subsequently yield both environmental and economic benefits.Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) supporting the project (Towards Adhesive Free Timber Buildings (AFTB) - 348)

Modeling the large inelastic deformation response of non-filled and silica filled SL5170 cured resin

In recent years, important efforts have been focused on rapid production of tools using Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing (RP&M) technologies such as the Stereo-Lithography Apparatus (SLA). One of the applications is the development of rapid polymer tooling such as dies for injection molding. For these applications, optimal thermal as well as mechanical properties of final tools are of significance. In order to characterize the mechanical response of materials made by SLA, a standard set of material tests, including uniaxial tension and compression tests under different strain rates and different temperatures, was conducted for both silica filled and non-filled resin. In this paper, the mechanical response of the non-filled SL5170 cured resin is discussed in terms of an elastic-viscoplastic material model. Further, a new model for silica filled SL5170 cured resin was developed to estimate the stress-strain relationship of the composite. This composite model is an extension of the elastic-viscoplastic model for non-filled resin to include the elastic deformation of the silica particles. The stress-strain curves predicted by the models under homogeneous deformation show good agreement with the experimental results.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44781/1/10853_2005_Article_903.pd

Constitutive modeling of polymer materials at impact loading rates

Starting from physical basis, a robust three-dimensional constitutive model for the finite strain response of amorphous polymers is briefly presented. This model accounts for the high strain rate and temperature effect. Intramolecular as well as intermolecular interactions under large elastic-inelastic behavior are considered for the mechanisms of deformation and hardening. In particular, it is found that the secondary relaxations of polymer chains play an important role in the deformation process for the high strain rates and low temperatures. For a wide range of temperature and strain rate, the proposed constitutive model has been validated in compression for three amorphous polymers: polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), polycarbonate (PC) and polyamideimide (PAI)

A new three-phase model to estimate the effective elastic properties of semi-crystalline polymers: Application to PET

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Resistivity of the liquid gallium-lead miscibility gap system

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On the numerical investigation of cardiovascular balloon-expandable stent using finite element method

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Diffusion coefficient of copper, tin and copper tin alloy

Pseudopotential formalism is used to construct an ionic effective potential (ion-ion potential screened by electrons). Molecular Dynamics is used in conjunction with the constructed effective potential to get the atomic structure factor of the pure components copper and tin which are compared to the experimental ones. We selected the Shaw Optimized Model Potential having proved that it adequately describes the atomic structure, we used it to calculate the velocity autocorrelation function and to deduce the self diffusion of pure metals: copper, tin and the diffusion coefficient of copper in the Sn95,6%Cu4,4%

A new benchmark reference solution for double-diffusive convection in heterogeneous porous medium

International audienceA new benchmark with a high accurate solution is proposed for the verification of numerical codes dealing with double-diffusive convection in a heterogeneous porous medium. The new benchmark is inspired by the popular problem of square porous cavity by assuming a stratified porous medium. A high accurate steady state solution is developed using the Fourier–Galerkin method. To this aim, the unknowns are expanded in double infinite Fourier series. The accuracy of the developed solution is assessed in terms of the truncation orders of the Fourier series. Comparison against finite element solutions highlights the worthiness of the proposed benchmark for numerical code validation