The full-field optical techniques such as e.g. a digital image correlation are capable to fully reflect the natural wood heterogeneity. Therefore, this thesis aspires to contribute to the experimental mechanics of wood and wood-based composites by the implementation of the full-field optical technique based on the digital image correlation to the standard mechanical tests. A supplementation of the conventional displacement sensors should help to obtain more precise mechanical characteristics and to do more sophisticated analyses of the deformation behaviour of wood and wood-based composites. The experimental part of the thesis is divided into the five independent case studies listed as the original papers. The measurements were carried out on the most wide-spread wood species in central Europe such as European beech (Fagus sylvatica, L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies, L. Karst). Beside the solid wood, the new wood-based sandwich structure, which consists of a core made from birch plywood and the particleboard facings, was investigated too. The loading of the samples was carried out using of the standard mechanical tests such as tension, compression, three-point bending and torsion test. In the first study, the full-field deformation data were used to indentify reasons for the non-standard deformation behaviour of spruce and beech wood during compression parallel to grain. Reason for this was recognized in the abrubt compression of damage zones located near the compression plates, which induced the expansion of the middle zone located between them. The second study aimed to find out neutral axis position in native and thermally modified beech wood during the conventional three-point bending test. The relative neutral axis position was obtained from mutual position of the neutral axis and centroidal axis, which was determined based on the appropriate image processing methods. It was found that the neutral axis and centroidal sample axis are almost coincident. Objective of the third study was to determine both longitudinal shear moduli of beech wood with help of the full-field shear strains, obtained from a single torsion test, together with use of the appropriate analytical solutions for the calculation of the stress distribution within the radial and tangential direction on the longitudinal-radial and longitudinal-tangential sample surfaces. Both longitudinal shear moduli increasingly mutually differed as the load increases. Within the fourth study, verification of the elastic material model used in finite-element analyses was carried out with help of full-field deformations induced around notches within dog-bone shaped sample during the uniaxial tension. Great correlation was found between numerically predicted and experimentally measured strain data sets for both longitudinal-radial and longitudinal-tangential shear planes. The fifth study dealed with the characterization of elastic deformation behaviour of newly developed wood-based composite with a sandwich structure. Based on the full-field strain analysis the local strain concentrations were identified. They took place within the core during flatwise compression, and within the facings, when the edgewise compression test was done. A variety of presented results confirmed widespread applicability of optical methods in the mechanics of materials. Therefore, the utilization of full-field optical method based on digital image correlation in experimental mechanics of wood and wood-based composites can be highly recommended.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:425337 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Brabec, Martin |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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