Original scientific paper

NEW APPROACH TO ESTABLISHING POISSON’S RATIOS OF SOFT-WOOD COMPONENTS

Lajos Borbás ; Research Centre for Biomechanics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
János Száva
Botond-Pál Gálfi ; Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
András Kakucs ; Sapientia University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Abstract

In literature, one can usually find experimental investigations into global mechanical behaviour of soft-wood specimens, but properties of their individual components, (namely the properties of the late-wood and the early-wood parts) are rarely presented. Therefore, information on the moisture content and on the density is presented here. In fact, the ratio of the early- and late-wood parts in the cross-sectional area represents a significant influential factor, especially in the case of soft-wood components. Based on previous experimental data bases, the authors offer an original and simple analytical method for establishing Poisson’s ratios for new, untested soft-wood specimens.

Keywords

analytical calculus; Poisson’s ratio; Video Image Correlation; experimental investigation

Hrčak ID:

89197

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/89197

Publication date:

10.7.2012.

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